TY - JOUR AU - Bassetti, Matteo AU - Manno, Graziana AU - Collidà, Andrea AU - Ferrando, Alberto AU - Gatti, Giorgio AU - Ugolotti, Elisabetta AU - Cruciani, Mario AU - Bassetti, Dante T1 - Erythromycin Resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes in Italy T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2000 VL - 6 IS - 2 SP - 180 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In a prospective study of acute pharyngitis in Italian children, 69 (38.3%) of 180 isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes were resistant to macrolides. S. pyogenes was eradicated in 12 (63.1%) of 19 patients with erythromycin-resistant S. pyogenes treated with clarithromycin and in 22 (88%) of 25 patients with erythromycin-susceptible strains. The constitutive-resistant phenotype was correlated with failure of macrolide treatment. KW - acute pharyngitis KW - Streptococus pyogenes KW - macrolides KW - S. pyogenes KW - erythromycin-resistant KW - macrolide treatment KW - Italy DO - 10.3201/eid0602.000212 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/6/2/00-0212_article ER - End of Reference