| Literature DB >> 16641473 |
P Littauer1, D A Caugant, M Sangvik, E A Høiby, A Sundsfjord, G S Simonsen.
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A 2.7% prevalence of macrolide resistance in 1,657 Norwegian clinical Streptococcus pyogenes isolates was primarily due to erm(TR) (59%) and mef(A) (20%). Four clonal complexes comprised 75% of the strains. Macrolide resistance in S. pyogenes in Norway is imported as resistant strains or locally selected in internationally disseminated susceptible clones.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16641473 PMCID: PMC1472204 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.50.5.1896-1899.2006
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191