TRIMETHOPRIM-RESISTANT BACTERIA - CROSS-RESISTANCE PATTERNS

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 19 (75), 45-53
Abstract
Clinically isolated trimethoprim-resistant bacteria (181 strains) were tested for sensitivity to proguanil, pyrimethamine, methotrexate and methasquin. All these agents had less intrinsic bacterial activity than trimethoprim, and there was marked cross-resistance between trimethoprim on the 1 hand and pyrimethamine and methasquin on the other. Methotrexate was of very low activity against gram-negative bacilli, but was highly inhibitory for streptococci. Proguanil had approximately the same activity for all the organisms tested, and appears not to act as an anti-folate agent.