Multicentre surveillance of the prevalence and molecular epidemiology of macrolide resistance among pharyngeal isolates of group A streptococci in the USA

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These data suggest an increasing prevalence and broad geographical distribution of macrolide-resistant GAS in the US, indicating the need for ongoing local and national longitudinal surveillance to define the extent of this problem.
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Authors Green MD;Beall B;Marcon MJ;Allen CH;Bradley JS;Dashefsky B;Gilsdorf JR;Schutze GE;Smith C;Walter EB;Martin JM;Edwards KM;Barbadora KA;Wald ER;;
Journal The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Year 2006
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16556634
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE gel pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine research support non-u.s. gov't united states / epidemiology Multicenter Study DNA polymerase chain reaction Bacterial / analysis drug resistance microbial sensitivity tests anti-bacterial agents / pharmacology* streptococcus pyogenes / isolation & purification electrophoresis pulsed-field bacterial proteins / genetics macrolides / pharmacology* streptococcal infections / epidemiology streptococcus pyogenes / drug effects* bacterial / genetics prevalence streptococcal infections / microbiology* bernard beall streptococcus pyogenes / classification membrane proteins / genetics bacterial / genetics* dna fingerprinting bacterial / metabolism molecular epidemiology methyltransferases / genetics streptococcus pyogenes / genetics deoxyribonucleases pmid:16556634 doi:10.1093/jac/dkl101 michael d green ellen r wald type ii site-specific / metabolism humans / growth & development pharynx / microbiology*

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