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Antibiotic Susceptibility and Phage Types of Pathogenic StaphylococciA Study of Two Hundred Ten Strains Isolated at Boston City Hospital in 1955
MAXWELL FINLAND, M.D.;
WILFRED F. JONES, Jr., M.D.;
IVAN L. BENNETT, Jr., M.D.
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;104(3):365-377.
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The antibiotic susceptibility of pathogenic staphylococci obtained from patients at the Boston City Hospital has been reported on several occasions in the past, and the results of studies carried out on such organisms isolated and studied prior to 1954 have been reviewed elsewhere.1,2 The present paper deals with coagulase-positive staphylococci isolated at this hospital in the latter half of 1955 and their susceptibility to some antibiotics that had been used extensively and to others that had not been available prior to the isolation of these strains. The susceptibility of the isolates to the most extensively used antibiotics has been correlated with their bacteriophage types and with prior antibiotic treatment of the patients from whom they were obtained.
Materials and Methods
Strains.
—A total of 210 cultures of Staphylococcus pyogenes var. aureus, nearly all of them isolated between Aug. 28 and Nov. 3, 1955, were included; the majority were
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Author Affiliations
Boston; Harlan, Ky.; Baltimore
From the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth (Harvard) Medical Services, Boston City Hospital; and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Biological Division, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 26, 1959.
Aided by a grant (E-23) from the National Institutes of Health.
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