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  2. In vivo therapeutic effect of gatifloxacin on BALB/c mice infected with Nocardia brasiliensis

In vivo therapeutic effect of gatifloxacin on BALB/c mice infected with Nocardia brasiliensis

  • Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008 Apr;52(4):1549-50. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00148-08.
Alejandra Daw-Garza 1 Oliverio Welsh Salvador Said-Fernández Hector Gerardo Lozano-Garza Noemi Waksman de Torres Norma Cavazos Rocha Jorge Ocampo-Candiani Lucio Vera-Cabrera
Affiliations

Affiliation

  • 1 Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Universitario José E González, Monterrey, NL, México.
Abstract

In the present work, we evaluated the effect of gatifloxacin on the evolution of experimental murine Infection with Nocardia brasiliensis using linezolid as a control. Gatifloxacin was injected subcutaneously at 100 mg/kg body weight every 8 h for 4 weeks. This compound was equally as efficient as linezolid in reducing the production of lesions.

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