TABLE 1.

MICs of aureocin A53 for various gram-positive bacteria

Organism	Strain	Description	MIC (μg/ml)	Reference
E. faecium	BM4147	Vancomycin resistant	0.29	17
L. innocua	ATCC 33090	Apathogenic	0.59
M. luteus	ATCC 4698	Aureocin A53 sensitive	0.87 × 10−3
S. aureus	LT-1334a	Methicillin-resistant isolate	1.17
S. aureus	J-11574a	Methicillin-susceptible isolate	1.17
Staphylococcus epidermidis	LT-1324a	Methicillin-resistant isolate	0.59
S. simulans 22		Aureocin A53 sensitive	0.59	26

^aStrain isolated in the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Immunology of the University Bonn, Bonn, Germany.