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. 2003 Aug;47(8):2716. doi: 10.1128/AAC.47.8.2716.2003

Antimicrobial Resistance in Respiratory Tract Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates: Results of the Canadian Respiratory Organism Susceptibility Study, 1997 to 2002

George G Zhanel 1,2,3, Lorraine Palatnick 3, Kimberly A Nichol 1,3, Tracy Bellyou 3, Don E Low 4; The Cross Study Group, Daryl J Hoban 1,3
PMCID: PMC166114

Volume 47, no. 6, p. 1867-1874, 2003. Page 1867: The article byline should read as given above.

Page 1872, Table 6, 1998-1999: “FQR” should read “FQr,” and FQr data for British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, Maritimes, and total for Canada should read 0.6, 1.1, 1.0, 0.9, 0.9, and 1.1, respectively.

Page 1871, Table 5: The data for TMP-SMX and levofloxacin should read as given below.

Table 5.

Antibiotic and yr No. of isolates % of isolates for which MICs (μg/ml) were:
≤0.12 0.25 0.5 1 2 4 8 16 ≥16 ≥32
TMP-SMX
    1997-1998 1,180 60.8 11.5 5.7 4.3 3.8 9.8 3.1 0.8
    1998-1999 1,333 53.3 19.1 5.7 3.7 4.0 10.0 3.8 0.5
    1999-2000 1,593 52.4 22.2 5.8 4.5 2.2 8.7 4.1 0.3
    2000-2001 1,435 38.4 20.8 14.8 5.7 3.9 5.8 4.6 5.8
    2001-2002 1,450 21.5 24.1 30.3 4.2 3.4 1.1 8.4 6.9
Levofloxacin
    1997-1998 1,180 1.6 2.4 26.8 64.0 4.7 0.3 0.1 0.1
    1998-1999 1,333 1.5 5.3 22.0 67.1 3.5 0.2 0.3 0.2
    1999-2000 1,593 1.3 2.2 12.9 77.2 5.3 0.1 0.4 0.2 0.4
    2000-2001 1,435 1.5 6.5 33.4 53.8 5.1 0.1 0.1 0.6
    2001-2002 1,450 1.0 0.5 28.2 63.8 4.2 0.2 0.6 0.2 0.1

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