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Relationship between macrolide-resistant genes and serotypes
| Resistant gene | No. of pneumococcal isolates tested of serotypes:
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| 19F | 3 | 6B | 6A | 23A | 23F | 35 | 15 | NT | 14 | 11 | 18 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 19A | 29 | |
| DNa | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| erm(B) | 3 | 22 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| mefb | 25 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||
| DPc | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
DN, neither erm(B) nor mef(A)/mef(E) was positive.
mef, mef(A)/mef(E).
DP, both macrolide-resistant genes [mef(A)/mef(E) and erm(B)] were positive.
