Background: Clindamycin has become an important antimicrobial option for the treatment of . However, little is known about the current patterns of clindamycin-susceptibility in invasive isolates, both in our country and in other developing countries in the world.
Aims: The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of constitutive and inducible clindamycin resistance in methicillin-susceptible (MSSA) and methicillin-resistant (MRSA) blood culture isolates in São Paulo, Brazil.