Georgios Meletis, Alexandros Lazaros Soulopoulos Ketikidis, Nikoletta Floropoulou, Areti Tychala, Georgia Kagkalou, Olga Vasilaki, Paraskevi Mantzana, Lemonia Skoura, Efthymia Protonotariou
Streptococcus pyogenes is responsible for various clinical manifestations in patients of all ages worldwide. Worryingly, an increase in antibiotic resistance rates of S. pyogenes has been observed in many countries. In the present study, 6-year data are presented regarding the antibiotic resistance rates of S. pyogenes in our hospital. During this period, a total of 52 S. pyogenes isolates were recovered from 52 patients and antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed for 49 isolates. All were susceptible to penicillin, ampicillin, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone, linezolid, moxifloxacin, rifampicin, vancomycin, teicoplanin, and tigecycline...
February 2023: New Microbiologica