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Fluoroquinolone resistance in invasive Streptococcus pyogenes isolates due to spontaneous mutation and horizontal gene transfer.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Mar 2006
Pletz M W R, McGee L, Van Beneden C A, Petit S, Bardsley M, Barlow M, Klugman K P
Abstract excerpt
Fluoroquinolone resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes has been described only anecdotally. In this study we describe two invasive ciprofloxacin-resistant S. pyogenes isolates (ciprofloxacin MICs, 8 mg/liter), one of which shows evidence of interspecies recombination. The quinolone resistance-determining regions of gyrA and parC were sequenced. In both isolates, there was no evidence for an efflux pump and no...
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