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Prevalence, Characteristics, and Molecular Epidemiology of Macrolide and Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae at Five Tertiary-Care Hospitals in Korea.

Shin JH, Jung HJ, Kim HR, Jeong J, Jeong SH, Kim S, Lee EY, Lee JN, Chang CL

Department of Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, Inje University, 633-165 Gaegeum-Dong Busanjin-Gu, Busan, 614-110, Korea. jhsmile@inje.ac.kr.

The genes erm(B), mef(A), and both erm(B) and mef(A) were identified in 42.6, 10.1, and 47.3%, respectively, of the erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates. Of the strains, 3.8% were nonsusceptible to levofloxacin and had 1 to 6 amino acid changes in the quinolone resistance-determining region, including a new mutation, Asn94Ser, in the product of parC. Levofloxacin with reserpine was highly specific for efflux screening.

Published 8 August 2007 in Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 51(7): 2625-7.
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