Open AccessPredominance of emm4 and antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus pyogenes in acute pharyngitis in a southern region of Korea
Author(s) -
Seungwook Kim,
Seungjun Lee,
Hyun Woong Park,
SunJoo Kim
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of medical microbiology/journal of medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1473-5644
pISSN - 0022-2615
DOI - 10.1099/jmm.0.001005
Subject(s) - streptococcus pyogenes , microbiology and biotechnology , clindamycin , genotype , pharyngitis , erythromycin , genotyping , ofloxacin , antibiotics , biology , antibiotic resistance , acute pharyngitis , tetracycline , medicine , gene , ciprofloxacin , bacteria , genetics , staphylococcus aureus
Streptococcus pyogenes is the most common cause of bacterial pharyngitis. Genotyping of emm is useful for molecular epidemiological survey of S. pyogenes. Antibiotic resistance data are needed for empirical treatments.