Clonally Related Penicillin-Nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 14 from Cases of Meningitis in Salvador, Brazil

Active hospital-based surveillance in the city of Salvador, Brazil, from December 1995 through October 1998, identified 221 patients with confirmed pneumococcal meningitis. Of these 221 patients, 29 (13%) had isolates with intermediate-level resistance to penicillin. Infection with these penicillin-...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Clinical infectious diseases 2000-01, Vol.30 (1), p.78-86
Hauptverfasser:	Ko, Albert I., Reis, Joice Neves, Coppola, Steven J., Gouveia, Edilane Lins, Cordeiro, Soraia Machado, Lôbo, Tatiana Silva, Pinheiro, Ricardo M., Salgado, Kátia, Ribeiro Dourado, Cibele M., Tavares-Neto, José, Rocha, Heonir, Galvão Reis, Mitermayer, Johnson, Warren D., Riley, Lee W.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology Antibiotics Antimicrobials Bacterial diseases Bacterial diseases of the nervous system. Bacterial myositis Biological and medical sciences Brazil - epidemiology Child Child, Preschool Clinical Articles Human bacterial diseases Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Infections Infectious diseases Medical sciences Meningitis, Pneumococcal - epidemiology Meningitis, Pneumococcal - microbiology Microbial Sensitivity Tests Patient surveillance Penicillin Penicillin Resistance Pneumococcal meningitis Polymerase chain reaction Polymerase Chain Reaction - methods Population Surveillance Predisposing factors Risk Factors Serotyping Streptococcus pneumoniae Streptococcus pneumoniae - classification Streptococcus pneumoniae - drug effects Streptococcus pneumoniae - genetics Streptococcus pneumoniae - isolation & purification Surveillance Tropical medicine
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Zusammenfassung:	Active hospital-based surveillance in the city of Salvador, Brazil, from December 1995 through October 1998, identified 221 patients with confirmed pneumococcal meningitis. Of these 221 patients, 29 (13%) had isolates with intermediate-level resistance to penicillin. Infection with these penicillin-nonsusceptible isolates was significantly associated with age of
ISSN:	1058-4838 1537-6591
DOI:	10.1086/313619