Volume 23, Number 4—April 2017
Dispatch
Incidence and Characteristics of Scarlet Fever, South Korea, 2008–2015
Duck Woong Park, Sun-Hee Kim, Jung Wook Park, Min-Ji Kim, Sun Ju Cho, Hye Jung Park, So Hyang Jung, Mi Hee Seo, Yong Seok Lee, Byung Hee Kim, Hyeran Min, Su Ya Lee, Dong Ryong Ha, Eun Sun Kim, Yeongjin Hong1
, and Jae Keun Chung1
, and Jae Keun Chung1
Table
Characterization of antimicrobial drug resistance according to emm types in Gwangju, South Korea, 2008–2015*
| Year, antimicrobial drug | emm type |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| emm1 | emm4 | emm12 | emm28 | Others | Total | |
| 2008 | ||||||
| Tetracycline |
– |
1† |
– |
– |
– |
1† |
| 2009 | ||||||
| Erythromycin | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Clindamycin | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Tetracycline |
– |
– |
– |
1 |
– |
1 |
| 2010 | ||||||
| Erythromycin | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Clindamycin |
– |
– |
– |
1 |
– |
1 |
| 2011 | ||||||
| Erythromycin | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1† | 1/3† |
| Clindamycin | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 |
| Tetracycline |
– |
– |
– |
1 |
– |
1 |
| 2012 | ||||||
| Erythromycin | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Clindamycin | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 |
| Tetracycline |
– |
1 |
– |
– |
– |
1 |
| 2013 | ||||||
| Chloramphenicol | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Erythromycin | 1 | – | – | 2 | 1† | 1/4† |
| Clindamycin | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 3 |
| Tetracycline |
– |
1 |
– |
1 |
– |
2 |
| 2014 | ||||||
| Chloramphenicol | – | – | 1† | – | – | 1† |
| Erythromycin | – | – | – | 4 | – | 4 |
| Clindamycin | – | – | – | 4 | – | 4 |
| Tetracycline |
– |
1† |
– |
4 |
– |
1/5† |
| 2015 | ||||||
| Erythromycin | – | – | 1 | 5 | – | 6 |
| Clindamycin | – | – | 1 | 5 | – | 6 |
| Tetracycline |
22/23† |
– |
1 |
2/7† |
5/7† |
29/38† |
| Isolates, % (no./total) | 24.5% (25/102) | 3.2% (8/251) | 10.8% (4/37) | 17.3% (18/104)‡ | 4.3% (9/211) | 9.1% (64/705) |
| p value | <0.01 | <0.01 | <0.01 | |||
*Dashes indicate no isolates were drug resistant.
†Intermediate resistance. With fractions, the numerator indicates the number of isolates with intermediate resistance, and the denominator indicates the total number of resistant isolates.
‡Numbers in column do not add up to 18 (the number of isolates) because of multidrug resistance.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
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