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Volume 2, Number 4—October 1996
Dispatch

Rapid Increase of Resistance to Erythromycin and Clindamycin in Streptococcus pyogenes in Italy, 1993-1995

Giuseppe Cornaglia*, Marco Ligozzi*, Annarita Mazzariol*, Myriam Valentini*, Graziella Orefici†, Roberta Fontana*, and ‡the Italian Surveillance Group for Antimicrobial Resistance
Author affiliations: *Institute of Microbiology, University of Verona, Italy; †National Health Institute, Rome, Italy; ‡The Italian Surveillance Group for Antimicrobial Resistance: Antonio Goglio, Cristiana Passerini Tosi, Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo; Massimo Gallina, Panaiota Troupioti, Azienda Ospedaliera 'Morelli’, Bormio; Bruno Maranini, Riccardo Cioni, Ospedale 'San Giuseppe’ Empoli; Pierluigi Nicoletti, Laura Martelli, Azienda Ospedaliera 'Careggi', Florence, Sergio Frugoni, Amelia Berlusconi, Pio Albergo Trivulzio, Milan; Roberto Rescaldani, Simone Bramati, Ospedale 'San Gerardo', Monza; Alfredo Chiarini, Anna Giammanco, Dipartimento di Igiene e Microbiologia, Università di Palermo; Roberto Rossetti, Spedali Riuniti, Pistoia; Gianfranco Santini, Annapaola Callegaro, Ospedale Civile, Pordenone; Giovanni Fadda, Teresa Spanu, Istituto di Microbiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome; Alessandro Maida, Elena Muresu, Bianca Maria Are, Istituto di Igiene e Medicina Preventiva, Università di Sassari; Piero Cappuccinelli, Silvana

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Number of GAS isolates tested per year and percentage of resistance to erythromycin and clindamycin, Italy, 1993-1995. Dark gray bars represent erythromycin resistance and light gray bars, clindamycin resistance.

Figure. Number of GAS isolates tested per year and percentage of resistance to erythromycin and clindamycin, Italy, 1993-1995. Dark gray bars represent erythromycin resistance and light gray bars, clindamycin resistance.

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