Group B streptococcal disease in nonpregnant patients: emergence of highly resistant strains of serotype Ib in Taiwan in 2006 to 2008

J Clin Microbiol. 2010 Jul;48(7):2571-4. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00810-10. Epub 2010 May 5.

Abstract

Among the 228 group B Streptococcus (GBS) isolates recovered in 2006 to 2008, higher resistance to erythromycin (58.3%) and clindamycin (57.9%) was found in isolates with certain resistance phenotypes. Serotype Ib isolates (24.6%) were the second most prevalent serotype, next to serotype V (29.4%), and showed the highest resistance rates to erythromycin (91.0%) and clindamycin (82.1%).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
  • Chi-Square Distribution
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial / genetics*
  • Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
  • Female
  • Gene Frequency
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Phenotype
  • Prevalence
  • Serotyping
  • Streptococcal Infections / epidemiology*
  • Streptococcal Infections / microbiology
  • Streptococcus agalactiae / drug effects
  • Streptococcus agalactiae / genetics*
  • Streptococcus agalactiae / isolation & purification
  • Taiwan / epidemiology

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents