Survey of macrolide resistance phenotypes in Swedish clinical isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes.

doi:10.1093/jac/41.1.135

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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 macrol...

Topics

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Data Collection
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Humans
Macrolides
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Phenotype
Streptococcus pyogenes
Sweden

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