@article{863fa3423ff346d89ed31feccc7f5d96,
title = "The outpatient institutional antibiogram does not accurately reflect the susceptibility of prepartum group B streptococcal isolates to erythromycin and clindamycin",
abstract = "This study compared the antimicrobial susceptibilities of 100 nonduplicate group B streptococcal (GBS) isolates from screening cultures of women attending OB-GYN clinics to a similar number of outpatient infection isolates recorded on the institutional antibiogram of a university teaching hospital. The screening GBS isolates were significantly more susceptible to erythromycin (72% versus 45%) and clindamycin (77% versus 48%) than the infection isolates.",
keywords = "Antimicrobial susceptibility, GBS, Screening isolates",
author = "Gray, {Katharine L.} and Fulcher, {Letitia C.} and McElmeel, {M. Leticia} and Xenakis, {Elly Marie Jeaanne} and Jorgensen, {James H.}",
note = "Funding Information: Disclaimers: While no funding was received for this study, JHJ discloses that he has served on an advisory board for BD Microbiology Systems and has received research funding from BD, bioMerieux, Merck, and Pfizer. The Institutional Review Board of the University of Texas Health Science Center reviewed the protocol and determined that testing of de-identified, discarded patient GBS isolates did not require patient consent. ",
year = "2011",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.08.015",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "71",
pages = "457--459",
journal = "Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease",
issn = "0732-8893",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "4",
}