%0 Journal Article
%T Inducible Clindamycin Resistance among Staphylococci Isolated from Burn Patients
%A A Zorgani
%A O Shawerf
%A K Tawil
%A E El-Turki
%A KS Ghenghesh
%J Libyan Journal of Medicine
%D 2009
%I 
%X Clindamycin has been used successfully to treat pneumonia and soft-tissue infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. However, inducible clindamycin resistance has been described as a cause of treatment failure of such infections. A total of 159 staphylococcal isolates from different clinical specimens from burn patients in Tripoli Burn Center were tested for inducible clindamycin resistance by the disk-diffusion induction test. Inducible clindamycin resistance was detected in 66.2% of 65 methicillin-resistant S. aureus isolates and in none of 55 methicillin-sensitive S. aureus, 10 methicillin-resistant coagulase negative staphylococci and 29 methicllin-sensitive coagulase negative staphylococci isolates. In our setting, clindamycin can be used for the treatment of infections due to staphylococci, but we recommend that staphylococci isolates, particularly methicillin-resistant S. aureus, are tested by the D-test before treatment.
%U http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ljm/article/view/45698