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Epidemiological characterization of Streptococcus pyogenes isolated from patients with multiple onsets of pharyngitis.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 May 2011
Ogawa Taiji, Terao Yutaka, Sakata Hiroshi, Okuni Hisashi, Ninomiya Keiko, Ikebe Kazunori, Maeda Yoshinobu, Kawabata Shigetada
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus pyogenes causes a broad spectrum of acute infections and is the bacterium most frequently isolated from patients with pharyngitis. A number of antibiotics including penicillin have been shown to be effective, although antibiotic treatment failure in cases of streptococcal pharyngitis have been reported. Herein, we aimed to elucidate the features of recurrent strains using clinical isolates....
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