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Macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes from Chinese pediatric patients in association with Tn916 transposons family over a 16-year period.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease - 1 Aug 2010
Feng Lijuan, Lin Hongrui, Ma Yaoling, Yang Yonghong, Zheng Yaojie, Fu Zhou, Yu Sangjie, Yao Kaihu, Shen Xuzhuang
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To investigate changes in the antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus pyogenes isolates over a 16-year period, 456 group A streptococci isolates were collected from Chinese pediatric patients among 1993 to 1994 and 2005 to 2008. Susceptibilities to antibiotics were performed using agar dilution methods. The macrolide resistance genes ermB, ermTR, mefA, and tetracycline-resistant gene tetM and the int and...
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