1. Erythromycin resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes in Italy
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Bassetti, Matteo, Manno, Graziana, Collida, Andrea, Ferrando, Alberto, Gatti, Giorgio, Ugolotti, Elisabetta, Cruciani, Mario, and Bassetti, Dante
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Diseases -- Research ,Streptococcus pyogenes -- Drug therapy ,Drug resistance in microorganisms -- Research ,Erythromycin -- Evaluation ,Pharyngitis -- Causes of ,Macrolide antibiotics -- Evaluation - Abstract
Erythromycin resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes has been studied using a prospective study of acute pharyngitis in children in Italy. S. pyogenes was eradicated in 12 of 19 of patients who had erythromycin-resistant S. pyogenes who were treated with clarithromycin. It was also eradicated in 22 of 25 with erythromycin-susceptible strains. The constitutive-resistant phenotype was in correlation with failure of macrolide treatment., In a prospective study of acute pharyngitis in Italian children, 69 (38.3%) of 180 isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes were resistant to macrolides. S. pyogenes was eradicated in 12 (63.1%) of [...]
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- 2000