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SUBMITTER: Credito K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2812158 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Credito Kim K Kosowska-Shick Klaudia K McGhee Pamela P Pankuch Glenn A GA Appelbaum Peter C PC
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20091214 2
We tested the propensity of three quinolones to select for resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae mutants by determining the mutant prevention concentration (MPC) against 100 clinical strains, some of which harbored mutations in type II topoisomerases. Compared with levofloxacin and gemifloxacin, moxifloxacin had the lowest number of strains with MPCs above the susceptibility breakpoint (P<0.001), thus representing a lower selective pressure for proliferation of resistant mutants. Only moxifloxacin ...[more]