Trends in Drug Resistance, Serotypes, and Molecular Types of Streptococcus pneumoniae Colonizing Preschool-Age Children Attending Day Care Centers in Lisbon, Portugal: a Summary of 4 Years of Annual Surveillance

Of the nasopharyngeal cultures recovered from 942 day care center (DCC) attendees in Lisbon, Portugal, 591 (62%) yielded Streptococcus pneumoniae during a surveillance performed in February and March of 1999. Forty percent of the isolates were resistant to one or more antimicrobial agents. In partic...

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Main Authors: Nunes, S., Sá-Leão, R., Carriço, J., Alves, C. R., Mato, R., Avô, A. Brito, Saldanha, J., Almeida, J. S., Sanches, I. Santos, de Lencastre, H.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2005
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Epidemiology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1081291/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15750097
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.43.3.1285-1293.2005
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