Characteristics of macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae strains isolated from patients and induced with erythromycin in vitro

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 617-620

  Okazaki, Norio ^a   Narita, Mitsuo ^b   Yamada, Satoshi ^c   Izumikawa, Kinichi ^d   Umetsu, Masao ^e   Kenri, Tsuyoshi ^f   Sasaki, Yuko ^f   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^f   Sasaki, Tsuguo ^f  

^a KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Sapporo Tetsudo JR Hospital   (Japan)

^c HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

^d Izumikawa Hospital   (Japan)

^e Hokkaido Children's Hospital and Medical Center   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

23S rRNA; Erythromycin resistance; Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; JOSAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; MACROLIDE; OLEANDOMYCIN; RNA 23S; ROXITHROMYCIN; SPIRAMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TYLOSIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0034859086     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2001.tb01293.x     Document Type: Article

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