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Increase in pneumococcus macrolide resistance, United States.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Aug 2009
Jenkins Stephen G, Farrell David J
Abstract excerpt
During year 6 (2005-2006) of the Prospective Resistant Organism Tracking and Epidemiology for the Ketolide Telithromycin surveillance study, 6,747 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates were collected at 119 centers. The susceptibility of these isolates to macrolides was compared with data from previous years. Macrolide resistance increased significantly in year 6 (35.3%) from the stable rate of approximately 30% for...
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