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Decrease of erythromycin resistance in group A streptococci by change of emm distribution.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jul 2008
Koh Eun-Ha, Kim Sunjoo, Lee Nam Yong
Abstract excerpt
With the increasing resistance of group A streptococci (GAS) to macrolides in some countries including Korea, throat cultures were taken from healthy elementary school children to isolate GAS in 2004. Antibiotic susceptibility, macrolide-resistant phenotypes and genotypes as well as emm genotyping were studied and compared with previous data in 2002. In the present study, resistance rates to erythromycin and...
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