High prevalence of macrolide resistance in Mycoplasma pneumoniae isolates from adult and adolescent patients with respiratory tract infection in China

The resistance rate of 67 Mycoplasma pneumoniae isolates from 356 ambulatory adult patients with respiratory tract infection was 69% (46 of 67). All 46 macrolide-resistant strains harbored point mutations in the 23S ribosomal RNA gene. Patients infected with macrolide-resistant M. pneumoniae required significantly longer durations of antibiotic therapy and had longer time to resolution of fever.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2010

Erschienen:

2010

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:51

Enthalten in:

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 51(2010), 2 vom: 15. Juli, Seite 189-94

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cao, Bin [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Chun-Jiang [VerfasserIn]
Yin, Yu-Dong [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Song, Shu-Fan [VerfasserIn]
Bai, Lu [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jian-Zhong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ying-Mei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yu-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Hui [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-Bacterial Agents
DNA, Bacterial
Journal Article
Macrolides
RNA, Ribosomal, 23S
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 20.09.2010

Date Revised 31.03.2022

published: Print

GENBANK: HM043729, HM043730, HM043731

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1086/653535

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM198747594