Emergence of group A Streptococcus strains with different mechanisms of macrolide resistance

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1199-1203

  Bingen, Edouard ^a   Leclercq, Roland ^a   Fitoussi, Frédéric ^a   Brahimi, Naïma ^a   Malbruny, Brigitte ^a   Deforche, Dominioue ^a   Cohen, Robert ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENE PRODUCT; JOSAMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PROTEIN ERM(B); PROTEIN MEF(A); RIBOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TRANSPORT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RIBOSOME; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHARYNGITIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 0036235476     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.46.5.1199-1203.2002     Document Type: Article

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