| antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and resistance transferability among bacteroides fragilis group isolates from patients with appendicitis in bali, indonesia. | patterns of antimicrobial susceptibility were determined for 155 clinical isolates of the bacteroides fragilis group from patients with acute appendicitis in bali, indonesia. the transfer of drug resistance was also studied, and plasmid analyses were undertaken. metronidazole and chloramphenicol were the most active drugs against these isolates (resistance rate, < or = 0.6%). among the beta-lactam drugs, cefoxitin was the most active (resistance rate, 2%). rates of resistance to tetracycline wer ... | 1993 | 8513066 |