In vitro activities of linezolid against clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that are susceptible or resistant to first-line antituberculous drugs
Servicio de Microbiología y Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Mara?ón, Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
We evaluated 117 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for susceptibility to linezolid by the proportion and E-test methods. Linezolid showed high in vitro activity, with all the strains inhibited by