Van Asselt G J, Van Boven C P
Department of Medical Microbiology, Westeinde Hospital, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 1997;418:451-2. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1825-3_107.
Disagreement on a uniform and accepted method of testing penicillin tolerance in Streptococcus pyogenes prevents a meaningful comparison of results of various studies on tolerance and an assessment of the contribution of this phenomenon to treatment failure. Therefore guidelines are needed.