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Epidemiology and antibiotic resistance of group A streptococci isolated from healthy schoolchildren in Korea.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2004
Kim Sunjoo, Lee Nam Yong
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OBJECTIVES: To assess the epidemiology, antibiotic resistance and genotypic characterization of group A streptococci (GAS) in Jinju, Korea. METHODS: Isolates were characterized in terms of their antibiotic resistance, the phenotypes of erythromycin resistance, the frequencies of erm(B), erm(A) and mef(A) genes, and by emm genotyping or M typing. The data were compared with those from 85 GAS strains collected...
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