TABLE 1.
Macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin resistance genes recovered from Streptococcus agalactiae strains according to their phenotypic patterns
| Phenotypic pattern | No. of strains (%) | No. of strains with indicated resistance gene(s) (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| erm(A) | erm(B) | erm(T) | mef(A) | lnu(B) | lsa(C) | erm(A) + erm(B) | erm(B) + mef(A) | lnu(B) + mef(A) | ||
| iMLSB | 84 (17) | 71 (84.5) | 7 (8.3) | 6 (7.2) | ||||||
| cMLSB | 316 (64) | 83 (26.3) | 230 (72.8) | 1 (0.3) | 2 (0.6) | |||||
| M | 89 (18) | 89 (100) | ||||||||
| M + Clir | 1 (0.3) | 1 (100) | ||||||||
| Clir | 3 (0.7) | 1 (33.3) | 2 (66.7) | |||||||
| Total | 493 (100) | 154 (31.2) | 237 (48.1) | 6 (1.2) | 89 (18.1) | 1 (0.2) | 2 (0.4) | 1 (0.2) | 2 (0.4) | 1 (0.2) |