Isolation of different erythromycin-resistance Streptococcus pneumoniae phenotypes in Piemonte Region

Valeria Allizond; Giuliana Banche; Janira Roana; Nicolò Li Vigni; Narcisa Mandras; Daniela Scalas; Vivian Tullio; Nicola A. Carlone; Dianella Savoia; Anna Barbui; Anna Maria Cuffini

doi:10.4081/mm.2008.2583

Isolation of different erythromycin-resistance Streptococcus pneumoniae phenotypes in Piemonte Region

https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2008.2583

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2008)

Submitted: 17 February 2014
Accepted: 17 February 2014

Published: 30 June 2008

Streptococcus pneumoniae, Erythromycin resistance, Resistance phenotypes

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The frequency of erythromycin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from human specimens, in different Piemonte Region hospitals between 2005-2007, has been studied. Erythromycin-susceptible isolates were 137/198 and erythromycin-resistant 61/198.Among resistant S. pneumoniae isolates 26/61 belonged to constitutive resistance phenotype, 26/61 to M phenotype and 9/61 to inducible resistance phenotype.

Allizond, V., Banche, G., Roana, J., Li Vigni, N., Mandras, N., Scalas, D., Tullio, V., Carlone, N. A., Savoia, D., Barbui, A., & Cuffini, A. M. (2008). Isolation of different erythromycin-resistance Streptococcus pneumoniae phenotypes in Piemonte Region. Microbiologia Medica, 23(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2008.2583