TABLE 3.
Incidence of macrolide resistance and mechanisms of resistance for isolates from 10 centers
| Country | No. (%) of macrolide-resistant S. pyogenes strains | No. of strains with the following gene:
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Erm(B) | Erm(A) | Mef(A) | Other | ||
| Slovak Republic | 17 (16.7) | 4 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| Romania | 10 (9.7) | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| Hungary | 5 (5.2) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Lithunania | 10 (10.1) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Slovenia | 13 (12.7) | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Czech Republic | 8 (7.7) | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Latvia | 9 (9.0) | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Bulgaria | 18 (16.8) | 0 | 12 | 6 | 0 |
| Poland | 16 (16.3) | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Croatia | 18 (18.2) | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| Total | 124 (12.3) | 18 | 75 | 29 | 2 |