Table 1.

Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of celecoxib against Gram-positive bacteria.

Bacteria	Description	Celecoxib (μg/ml)
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 4330	Clinical isolate resistant to methicillin and oxacillin	32
Vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA10)	Resistant to ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, erythromycin, and gentamicin	32
Streptococcus pneumoniae ATCC 49619	Isolated from sputum of 75-year-old male, Phoenix, AZ, USA	64
Bacillus anthracis	Stern vaccine strain	16
B. anthracis UM23	Weybridge strain which contains the toxigenic pXO1 plasmid and lacks the pXO2 capsule plasmid	16
B. anthracis AMES35	Isolated from 14-month-old heifer that died in Texas in 1981. It is a derivative of B. anthracis, strain Ames that was treated with novobiocin to cure it of the pXO2 plasmid.	16
B. subtilis CU 1065	-	16
Listeria monocytogenes	F4244 CDC. Clinical isolate from patient cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)	32
Mycobacterium smegmatis ATCC 14468	Reference strain	16