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From: Staphylococcus aureus intestinal colonization is associated with increased frequency of S. aureuson skin of hospitalized patients

Figure 2

Effect of antibiotic therapy with agents with in vitro inhibitory activity against colonizing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains. One patient (A) received oral vancomycin for treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea and a second (B) received oral levofloxacin for treatment of a urinary tract infection. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of vancomycin for the MRSA isolate in A was 0.25 μg/mL; the MIC of levofloxacin for the MRSA isolate in B was 0.125 μg/mL). + = positive nares culture; - = negative nares culture; solid circles = density of MRSA in stool.

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