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Jay Ward Kislak, The Susceptibility of Bacteroides fragilis to 24 Antibiotics, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 125, Issue 3, March 1972, Pages 295–299, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/125.3.295
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Abstract
Of the anaerobic, nonsporulating, gram-negative bacilli, those of the genus Bacteroides are most frequently associated with serious infections in man. Forty clinical isolates of the species Bacteroides fragilis were tested quantitatively against 24 antibiotics by an agar-dilution method under anaerobic conditions. Clindamycin, the most active antibiotic studied, had a median MIC of 0.19 µg/ml. Rifampin, erythromcyin, lincomycin, and chloramphenicol also inhibited all isolates in clinically attainable concentrations. More than half of the strains tested were resistant to tetracycline. Some isolates were susceptible to penicillin G, ampicillin, carbenicillin, and the cephalosporins, and all were resistant to the aminoglycosides, polymyxins, and semisynthetic penicillinase-resistant penicillins.