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Prevalence and mechanisms of macrolide resistance in clinical isolates of group A streptococci from Ontario, Canada.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Sept 1999
De Azavedo J C, Yeung R H, Bast D J, Duncan C L, Borgia S B, Low D E
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A total of 3,205 group A streptoccal isolates were collected in 1997 through a private laboratory which serves community physicians in southern Ontario and which represents a population base of 6 million people. Nonsusceptibility to erythromycin was detected for 67 (2.1%) isolates both by disk diffusion and by broth microdilution. Of these, 47 (70%) were susceptible to clindamycin and were found by PCR to possess...
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