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The results are presented of the first surveillance study in Greece on resistance in strains ofHaemophilus influenzae (n=61) andHaemophilus parainfluenzae (n=96) to six antibiotics. Strains were isolated in a three-month period in 1987 in most cases from sputum specimens from adult patients with lung infections. The overall rate of resistance to ampicillin was 28.3 %, to chloramphenicol 2.7 %, to cefaclor 2.7 %, to tetracycline 10.6 %, to erythromycin 38.1 % and to cotrimoxazole 5.3 %. It is evident that the resistance rate ofHaemophilus spp. is steadily increasing in Greece as in other European countries. Regular surveys of resistance patterns for both older and newer antimicrobial agents are therefore necessary.
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V. Evangelopoulou, G. Marinis, S. Kanavaki, J. Tsagarakis, V. Pournaras, E. Papafragas, O. Paniara.
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Kanellakopoulou, K., Giamarellou, H., Avlamis, A. et al. Surveillance study of resistance inHaemophilus species in Greece. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 7, 186–188 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01963077
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