Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2004)

Decreased Levofloxacin Susceptibility in Haemophilus influenzae in Children, Hong Kong

  • Pak Leung Ho,
  • Kin Hung Chow,
  • Gannon C. Mak,
  • Kenneth W. Tsang,
  • Yu Lung Lau,
  • Pak-Leung Ho,
  • Eileen L. Lai,
  • Susan S. Chiu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1011.040055
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 11
pp. 1960 – 1962

Abstract

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Among 563 strains of Haemophilus influenzae from young children in Hong Kong, 5 (0.9%) had decreased susceptibility to quinolones. The five strains had a Ser-84-Lys or Asp-88-Asn substitution in GyrA. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis showed that the isolates are genetically diverse.

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