Genotypes of macrolide-resistant pneumococci from children in southwestern Japan: raised incidence of strains that have both erm(B) and mef(A) with serotype 6B clones

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-22

  Ikenaga, Masaaki ^a   Kosowska Shick, Klaudia ^b   Gotoh, Kenji ^a   Hidaka, Hidenobu ^a   Koga, Hiroyasu ^a   Masunaga, Kenji ^a   Nagai, Kensuke ^a   Tsumura, Naoki ^a   Appelbaum, Peter C ^b   Matsuishi, Toyojiro ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clones; Macrolide resistant pneumococci; Resistance genotypes

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; TELITHROMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MACROLIDES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 49549084629     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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