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Surveillance of the prevalence of macrolide and/or fluoroquinolone resistance-associated mutations in Mycoplasma genitalium in Japan.
Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy - 1 Nov 2018
Deguchi Takashi, Ito Shin, Yasuda Mitsuru, Sato Yuko, Uchida Chiaki, Sawamura Masayuki, Manda Kazushi, Takanashi Masaki, Kiyota Hiroshi
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To clarify the status of macrolide and fluoroquinolone resistance of clinical strains of Mycoplasma genitalium in Japan, we amplified portions of the gyrA, parC, and 23S rRNA genes from DNAs in 627 first-voided urine specimens collected from men with M. genitalium-positive urethritis who visited clinics mainly in Sendai, Tokyo, and Osaka, Japan, from 2013 to 2017, by PCR and sequenced. The incidence of single...
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