Comparison of In Vivo Transportability of Anti-Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Agents Into Intracellular and Extracellular Tissue Spaces in Rats.

The pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus can penetrate host cells. However, intracellular S. aureus is not considered during antimicrobial agent selection in clinical chemotherapy because of the lack of information about drug transportability into cells in vivo.