In vitro activities of linezolid against clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that are susceptible or resistant to first-line antituberculous drugs.

Luis Alcalá María Jesús Ruiz-Serrano Cristina Pérez-Fernández Turégano Darío García De Viedma Marisol Díaz-Infantes Mercedes Marín-Arriaza Emilio Bouza

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Servicio de Microbiología y Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain.

Published: January 2003

We evaluated 117 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for susceptibility to linezolid by the proportion and E-test methods. Linezolid showed high in vitro activity, with all the strains inhibited by

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