Multicentre surveillance of the prevalence and molecular epidemiology of macrolide resistance among pharyngeal isolates of group A streptococci in the USA
Green, Michael D.;Beall, Bernard;Marcon, Mario J.;Allen, Coburn H.;Bradley, John S.;Dashefsky, Barry;Gilsdorf, Janet R.;Schutze, Gordon E.;Smith, Clay;Walter, Emmanuel B.;Martin, Judith M.;Edwards, Kathryn M.;Barbadora, Karen A.;Wald, Ellen R.;
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy2006Vol. 57pp. 1240-1243
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Abstract
Abstract. Objectives: Rates of macrolide resistance in group A streptococci (GAS) were reported to be low in the US in the 1990s. However, we documented an unex