Bacteriophage Typing and Antibiotic Sensitivity Testing of Staphylococci Isolated from the Oral Cavity of Man
PHILLIP H. MANN 1
1 Section of Bacteriology, Department of Laboratories, Lebanon Hospital, Bronx, N. Y.
In the present investigation, 26 coagulase-positive strains of S. aureus, isolated from the oral cavity of a total of two hundred individual patients, were phage-typed and also tested for susceptibility to a number of currently available antibiotics. Most of these strains were non-typable or resistant to lysis by all the phages. Of this number, 18 were susceptible to oxytetracycline, 25 to penicillin, and all to oleandomycin.
Submitted on February 3, 1960
Revised on April 14, 1960
