Volume 5, Number 2—April 1999
Synopsis
Clonal Differences among Erythromycin-Resistant Streptococcus pyogenes in Spain
Table
Annual distribution of clones of M-phenotype erythromycin– resistant Streptococcus pyogenes
| Clonesa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Total M-phenotype | A | B | C | D | E-O (biotype/T type/emm type) |
| Gipuzkoa 1988-1990 | 8 | 7 | ||||
| Gipuzkoa 1991-1994 | 80 | 76 | 1 E (I/T1/emm1) | |||
| 1 F (I/T28/emm28) | ||||||
| Gipuzkoa 1995 | 83 | 31 | 18 | 29 | 1 G (I/TB3264/emm ntb) | |
| 1 H (III/TB3264/emm2) | ||||||
| Gipuzkoa 1996 | 74 | 19 | 23 | 25 | 2 H | |
| 1 E | ||||||
| 1 I (I/T4/emm4) | ||||||
| Gipuzkoa 1997 | 56 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 40 | 2 H |
| 2 J (V/T8 25/emm75) | ||||||
| 1 K (II/T2/emm2) | ||||||
| 1 L (III/Tnt/emm3) | ||||||
| Madrid 1996 | 90 | 12 | 2 | 68 | 6 M (III/T12/emm12) | |
| 2 N (III/T12/emm12) | ||||||
| Vitoria 1996 | 33 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 1 O (III/Tnt/emm3) | |
| Total | 424c | 9 | 172 | 46 | 163 | 23 |
aClone A: biotype III, type T12 emm12, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern I; clone B: biotype I, type T4 emm4, PFGE pattern II; clone C: biotype I, type T4 emm4, PFGE pattern III; clone D: biotype V, type T8.25 emm75, PFGE pattern IV.
bnt: nontypeable.
cEleven strains were not typed.
