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. 1986 Nov;30(5):798–801. doi: 10.1128/aac.30.5.798

Survey of anaerobic susceptibility patterns in Canada.

A M Bourgault, G K Harding, J A Smith, G B Horsman, T J Marrie, F Lamothe
PMCID: PMC176539  PMID: 3800358

Abstract

The in vitro activity of penicillin, cefoxitin, moxalactam, ticarcillin, clindamycin, chloramphenicol, and metronidazole against 590 anaerobic isolates collected from five Canadian hospitals during 1984 was determined by an agar dilution technique. Cefoxitin, clindamycin, chloramphenicol, and metronidazole were very active against most of the isolates. No major regional differences in the susceptibility patterns were observed.

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