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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, November 1998, p. 3022-3023, Vol. 42, No. 11
0066-4804/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Antimicrobial Susceptibilities of Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia, and Prevotella nigrescens spp. Isolated in Spain

María T. Andrés,1 Whasun O. Chung,2 Marilyn C. Roberts,2 and José F. Fierro1,3,*

Laboratory of Oral Microbiology, School of Stomatology,1 and Department of Functional Biology (Microbiology), Faculty of Medicine,3 University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, and Department of Pathobiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington2

Received 27 April 1998/Returned for modification 16 July 1998/Accepted 26 August 1998

The susceptibilities of 143 Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia, and Prevotella nigrescens isolates to 18 antimicrobial agents were tested. All P. gingivalis isolates were susceptible. In contrast, some Prevotella spp. (17%) were resistant to beta -lactams, erythromycin, clindamycin, or tetracycline and carried resistance genes, ermF or tetQ, or beta -lactamases.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Functional Biology (Microbiology), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oviedo, C/Julián Clavería, s.n., 33006 Oviedo, Spain. Phone: 34-98-5103555. Fax: 34-98-5103534. E-mail: ffr{at}sauron.quimica.uniovi.es.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, November 1998, p. 3022-3023, Vol. 42, No. 11
0066-4804/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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