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. 2009 Oct 5;54(1):149–156. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01035-09

TABLE 3.

Relative activities of fluoroquinolones

Assay result Rank order of activitya
D (8-OMe; 7-N Et) F (8-OMe; 7-C Et) K (8-H; 7-N Et) I (8-H; 7-C Et)
Restricts recovery of mutants on agar (Fig. 5) 1 2 3 4
Lethality in liquid (MBC; Table 2) 1 2 3 4
Lethality on agar surface (Fig. 6) 1 4 3 2
Restricts gyrase mutant growth (Fig. 7) 1 2 4 3
Restricts mutant subpopulation growth (Fig. 8) 2 1 4 3
a

OME, methoxy; Et, ethyl.