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. 1998 Oct;42(10):2739–2744. doi: 10.1128/aac.42.10.2739

TABLE 2.

PAE and PA SME after exposure to 10× the MIC of vancomycin for 2 h for S. aureus and S. epidermidis strains studied in BioScreen C

Strain PAE (h) PA SME (h) with the following multiples of the MIC:
0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6
S. aureus ATCC 29213a 1.6 (1.3–2.0) 3.1 (2.4–3.6) 5.3 (4.6–6.1) 8.2 (7.3–9.6) 10.0 (9.1–11.0) 13.3 (12.4–14.7) NCb (13.9–>20)
S. epidermidis ATCC 29886a 4.8 (4.3–5.4) 9.2 (7.4–10.1) NC (11.3–>12)
S. aureus
 1841 2.0 7.3 10.0 11.6 >13.0
 3028 0.7 2.3 4.6 10.7 >14.6
 1011 1.8 3.3 5.7 7.6 11.1 >16
S. epidermidis
 ATCC 29887 2.6 10.0 >11
 6002 2.1 6.0 10.3 >10.3
 5028 1.4 10.0 13.8 >14.0
a

For these strains, values are means (ranges). 

b

NC, not calculated.