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SUMMARY

Penicillin tolerance was elicited in 18 of 46 strains of viridans streptococci isolated from the mouths of 19 of 20 healthy subjects and in 31 of 54 consecutive blood-culture isolates of streptococci. Enterococci and were theorganisms most frequently tolerant but the property was also common among isolates of and Lancefield Group G streptococci. Pneumococci and were rarely tolerant. When incubated with penicillin at 5 × MIC in batch or continuous cultures, both tolerant and sensitive strains of oral streptococci declined in number less rapidly than . However, combinations of penicillin and gentamicin killed tolerant and sensitive oral streptococci.

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