Article
Survey of macrolide resistance phenotypes in Swedish clinical isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jan 1998
Jasir A, Schalén C
Abstract excerpt
Two hundred selected Swedish clinical strains of Streptococcus pyogenes, identified as erythromycin-resistant and isolated between 1980 and 1988, and 37 consecutive, resistant strains from 1989-90 were examined for resistance phenotype by disc diffusion. Strains constitutively resistant to macrolides, lincosamides and streptogramin B were absent in 1980-85 but accounted for 10% in 1986-88. The majority of the...
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