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Phenotypic and molecular characterization of tetracycline- and erythromycin-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jul 2003
Montanari Maria P, Cochetti Ileana, Mingoia Marina, Varaldo Pietro E
Abstract excerpt
Sixty-five clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae, all collected in Italy between 1999 and 2002 and resistant to both tetracycline (MIC, >or=8 microg/ml) and erythromycin (MIC, >or=1 microg/ml), were investigated. Of these strains, 11% were penicillin resistant and 23% were penicillin intermediate. With the use of the erythromycin-clindamycin-rokitamycin triple-disk test, 14 strains were assigned to the...
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