Emergence of Macrolide-Resistant Streptococcus pyogenes Strains in French Children

AUTOR(ES)

Bingen, Edouard

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

We studied the antimicrobial susceptibility of 322 Streptococcus pyogenes throat isolates from French children and their serotype and genomic diversity. A total of 22.4% were erythromycin resistant, and 69.4, 4.2, and 26.4% of these isolates harbored ermB, ermA, and mefA, respectively. Increasing resistance in France is mainly associated with a few emm type 28 clones.

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