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CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages 925-927Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01245.x
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antibiotic use; erythromycin; penicillin; resistance; Streptococcus pneumoniae
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A 16% decline in rates of penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Taiwan between 1998-1999 (25%) and 2001 (9%) was associated with a 46% decrease in total penicillin and other cephalosporin usage in 2001 compared with 1999. However, erythromycin resistance in S. pneumoniae remained high (94%), despite a 45% decrease in macrolide consumption between 1999 and 2001.
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