Article
Erythromycin resistance genes in group A streptococci in Finland. The Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jan 1999
Kataja J, Huovinen P, Skurnik M, Seppälä H
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus pyogenes isolates (group A streptococcus) of different erythromycin resistance phenotypes were collected from all over Finland in 1994 and 1995 and studied; they were evaluated for their susceptibilities to 14 antimicrobial agents (396 isolates) and the presence of different erythro...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacterial Proteins
- Blotting, Southern
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Erythromycin
- Finland
- Genes, Bacterial
- Humans
- Membrane Proteins
- Methyltransferases
- Phenotype
- Plasmids
- Streptococcus pyogenes