The effects of elevated temperature (43C) - incubation on the stability of drug resistance of Staphylococcus aureus from Philippine General Hospital

• Main Author: Murallon, Marlon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1995
• Subjects: Bacterial diseases; Micro-organisms; Effect of drugs on; Bacteria; Pathogenic; Staphylococcus; Philippine General Hospital
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/1292
• Institution: De La Salle University

Multiple-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from cases of the Philippine General Hospital were tested for the stability of their drug-resistance after incubation at an elevated temperature of 43 degrees celcius. Only three of the twenty isolates studied lost their resistance to one or all...