In Vitro Activity of Linezolid against Slowly Growing Nontuberculous ...

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Dec 2, 2002 - MICs of linezolid in broth microdilutions were tested against 341 slowly growing nontuberculous mycobac- teria (NTM) belonging to 15 species.
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY, May 2003, p. 1736–1738 0066-4804/03/$08.00⫹0 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.47.5.1736–1738.2003 Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Vol. 47, No. 5

NOTES In Vitro Activity of Linezolid against Slowly Growing Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Barbara A. Brown-Elliott,* Christopher J. Crist, Linda B. Mann, Rebecca W. Wilson, and Richard J. Wallace, Jr. Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Center, Tyler, Texas Received 2 December 2002/Returned for modification 13 January 2003/Accepted 29 January 2003

MICs of linezolid in broth microdilutions were tested against 341 slowly growing nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) belonging to 15 species. The proposed linezolid susceptibility MICs for all Mycobacterium marinum, Mycobacterium szulgai, Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium malmoense, and Mycobacterium xenopi isolates and for 90% of Mycobacterium gordonae and Mycobacterium triplex isolates were