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Molecular epidemiology of macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Europe.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 2005
Reinert Ralf René, Ringelstein Adrian, van der Linden Mark, Cil Murat Yücel, Al-Lahham Adnan, Schmitz Franz-Josef
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In many European countries, the level of pneumococcal resistance to macrolides has now passed the level of resistance to penicillin G. A total of 82 erythromycin A-resistant isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae were collected by 11 laboratories in seven European countries. All of the isolates were tested for antimicrobial susceptibility, analyzed for clonal relatedness by multilocus sequence typing, and...
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