Prevalence of macrolide resistance in Treponema pallidum is associated with macrolide consumption Kenyon, Chris,, 68, 119-123 (2019), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.000885, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 0022-2615, abstract= We hypothesized that the large global variations in the prevalence of macrolide resistance in Treponema pallidum are related to differences in population-level macrolide consumption. The hypothesis was tested by, at a country-level, regressing the peak prevalence of macrolide resistance against the national macrolide consumption in the year prior to this, controlling for the year of the resistance prevalence estimate. A strong association was found between the per capita consumption of macrolides and macrolide resistance (coefficient 0.7, 95 % confidence interval 0.2–0.12, P=0.009)., language=, type=