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Table 2 Spontaneous mutational frequencies of strains with different categories of erm and erm negative strains toward solithromycin

From: Staphylococcus aureus with an erm-mediated constitutive macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance phenotype has reduced susceptibility to the new ketolide, solithromycin

Types (No. of isolates tested)

Range of mutational frequencies (Median)

Hours of subculture to selection (h)

Erm+/Erm- ratioa (Frequencies)

iMLSB in total

1.3 × 10-5 to 4.2 × 10-8(2.1 × 10-6)

40 to 88

59

 ErmA+(11)

1.3 × 10-5 to 4.2 × 10-8 (2.7 × 10-6)

64 to 88

75

 ErmC+(5)

2.7 × 10-6 to 6.3 × 10-8(7.8 × 10-7)

40

21

cMLSB in total

>3.9 × 10-4 to >4.2 × 10-5 (>1.2 × 10-4)

40

>3333

 ErmA+(5)

>3.9 × 10-4 to >8.7 × 10-5(>3.2 × 10-4)

40

>9048

 ErmB+(12)

>1.6 × 10-4 to >4.2 × 10-5(>1.2 × 10-4)

40

>3277

 Erm-(26)

4.6 × 10-7 to <9.8 × 10-9 (3.6 × 10-8)

40 to >88

 
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