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Erythromycin resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes in Italy.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Bassetti M, Manno G, Collidà A, Ferrando A, Gatti G, Ugolotti E, Cruciani M, Bassetti D
Abstract excerpt
In a prospective study of acute pharyngitis in Italian children, 69 (38.3%) of 180 isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes were resistant to macrolides. S. pyogenes was eradicated in 12 (63.1%) of 19 patients with erythromycin-resistant S. pyogenes treated with clarithromycin and in 22 (88%) of 25 patients with erythromycin-susceptible strains. The constitutive-resistant phenotype was correlated with failure of...
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