Resistance Patterns of Streptococcus pneumoniae from Children in Central Italy

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作者：

M. P. Ronchetti

F. Guglielmi

L. Latini

R. Merolla

G. Lorusso

S. Bajaksouzian

M. P. Villa

S. Catania

M. R. Jacobs

R. Ronchetti

机构：

[1] Department of Infectious Diseases,

[2] La Sapienza University,undefined

[3] Rome,undefined

[4] Italy,undefined

[5] Department of Pathology,undefined

[6] Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland,undefined

[7] Cleveland,undefined

[8] OH,undefined

[9] USA,undefined

[10] 2nd Department of Pediatrics,undefined

[11] La Sapienza University,undefined

[12] Viale Regina Elena 324,undefined

[13] Rome,undefined

[14] I-00161 Italy,undefined

来源：

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | 1999年 / 18卷

关键词：

Streptococcus Pneumoniae; Clinical Infectious Disease; Nasopharyngeal Swab; Penicillin Resistance; Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal;

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摘要：

Nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from children aged 3–5 years in central Italy who were attending day-care centres or hospital outpatient clinics. One hundred and twenty-one strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated were tested for susceptibility to penicillin, cefotaxime, erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol and cotrimoxazole. A high prevalence of penicillin-resistant (14%), erythromycin-resistant (60%) and multiply resistant strains (53%) were found. An unusual finding was that 49 of the 64 (76.6%) multiply resistant strains were penicillin-susceptible, 28 serogroup 6 strains also being resistant to the other antibiotics tested. Such strains have not previously been reported from Italy but have the same features as strains recently found in child carriers in the eastern Mediterranean area.

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