High Incidence of Erythromycin Resistance among Clinical Isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae in Taiwan
- 1 November 2001
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 45 (11) , 3205-3208
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.45.11.3205-3208.2001
Abstract
The in vitro susceptibilities of 266 isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae determined by the agar dilution method showed that 6% of isolates were nonsusceptible to penicillin and 46% was resistant to erythromycin. Of the erythromycin-resistant isolates, 86.3% had the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin (MLS) resistance phenotype (constitutive MLS, 85.5%; inducible MLS, 0.8%) and 13.7% had the M phenotype.Keywords
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