Abstract:Aggregate data in institutional antibiograms may not accurately represent major pathogens' antibiotic susceptibility patterns in important clinical scenarios. In this analysis of Staphylococcus aureus isolates between 2013 and 2016 at the Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, methicillin and clindamycin susceptibility rates of S. aureus differed significantly from aggregate data when stratified by wound specimen and osteoarticular infection (OAI) isolates. Clindamycin susceptibility of methicillin-resistan… Show more
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