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Volume 24, Number 8—August 2018
Research

Clonal Expansion of Macrolide-Resistant Sequence Type 3 Mycoplasma pneumoniae, South Korea

Joon Kee Lee1, Joon Ho Lee1, Hyunju Lee, Young Min Ahn, Byung Wook Eun, Eun Young Cho, Hwa Jin Cho, Ki Wook Yun, Hoan Jong Lee, and Eun Hwa ChoiComments to Author 
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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Table 2

Distribution of Mycoplasma pneumoniae STs by macrolide susceptibility, South Korea, 2000–2016*

ST (no. isolates) No. (%) isolates
Macrolide-susceptible
 Macrolide-resistant
ST1 (2) 2 (2.3) 0
ST2 (1) 1 (1.1) 0
ST3 (109) 51 (58.6) 58 (98.3)
ST7 (2) 2 (2.3) 0
ST14 (22) 21 (24.1) 1 (1.7)
ST15 (4) 4 (4.6) 0
ST17 (4) 4 (4.6) 0
ST31 (2) 2 (2.3) 0
Total (146) 87 (100) 59 (100)

*ST, sequence type.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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