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High incidence of erythromycin resistance among clinical isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae in Taiwan.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Nov 2001
Hsueh P R, Teng L J, Lee L N, Ho S W, Yang P C, Luh K T
Abstract excerpt
The in vitro susceptibilities of 266 isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae determined by the agar dilution method showed that 6% of isolates were nonsusceptible to penicillin and 46% was resistant to erythromycin. Of the erythromycin-resistant isolates, 86.3% had the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin (MLS) resistance phenotype (constitutive MLS, 85.5%; inducible MLS, 0.8%) and 13.7% had the M phenotype.
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