Clonal Expansion of Macrolide-Resistant Sequence Type 3 Mycoplasma pneumoniae, South Korea
Joon Kee Lee
1, Joon Ho Lee
1, Hyunju Lee, Young Min Ahn, Byung Wook Eun, Eun Young Cho, Hwa Jin Cho, Ki Wook Yun, Hoan Jong Lee, and Eun Hwa Choi
Author affiliations: Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (J.K. Lee, J.H. Lee, H. Lee, E.Y. Cho, K.W. Yun, H.J. Lee, E.H. Choi); Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, Seoul (J.K. Lee, K.W. Yun, H.J. Lee, E.H. Choi); Kangwon National University School of Medicine, Chuncheon, South Korea (J.H. Lee); Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea (H. Lee); Eulji University School of Medicine, Daejeon, South Korea (Y.M. Ahn, B.W. Eun); Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Daejeon (E.Y. Cho); Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, South Korea (H.J. Cho); Chonnam National University Children's Hospital, Gwangju (H.J. Cho)
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Figure 1. Macrolide resistance of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, South Korea, 2000–2016. Each number on the bar graph indicates the macrolide-resistancet of each epidemic year. The proportion of macrolide resistance strains by each outbreak were as follows: 0% (2000 and 2003–2004), 3.4% (2006–2007), 54.1% (2010–2012), and 84.4% (2014–2016).
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