[Pharyngotonsillitis caused by Streptococcus pyogenes: clinical and epidemiological aspects and resistance phenotypes towards macrolides].
During 2001 we analyzed 1730 pharyngeal swabs for S. pyogenes (SGA): 1142 children (0-10 years old), 132 adolescent subjects (11-17 years old), and 456 adults (18 or more years old). 994 subjects (664 children, 85 adolescent ones, 245 adults) had acute pharyngotonsillitis. In this last group we observed 321 positivities (32.3 %) for SGA: 40.4 % among children, 24.7 % among adolescent people, 13.1 % among adults. The pharyngotonsillitis prevailed during winter and spring. The resistances (R) towards erythromycin were 27.7 % (89 cases), and among children 30.6 % (82 cases), towards clyndamicin 15.3 % (49 cases, and 17.2 %, 46 cases, among children), towards rokytamicin 11.8 % (38 cases, and 13.1 %, 35 cases, among children). These were the phenotypes of R to erythromycin: 25.8 % M-phenotype, 19.1 % inducible (iMLS), 55.1 % constitutive (cMLS); among children respectively 25.6 %, 18.3 % and 53.7 %. Increased resistances towards 16-C macrolides, increased resistances of cMLS to erythromycin, and the persistence of R to 14-C macrolides around 30 % are discussed.
Crotti
Daniele
D
Sezione di Microbiologia e Parassitologia Clinica, A. O. di Perugia, P.O. R. Silvestrini, Perugia.
D'Annibale
Maria Letizia
ML
Ubaldi
Manuela
M
Fonzo
Giovanna
G
Medori
Maria Chiara
MC
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018942:Macrolides / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D010612:Pharyngitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D010641:Phenotype; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology; D013297:Streptococcus pyogenes / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics*; D014069:Tonsillitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*
D018942:Macrolides