High carriage rate of high-level penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in a Taiwan kindergarten associated with a case of pneumococcal meningitis

BACKGROUND: The Taiwan(19F)-14 Streptococcus pneumoniae clone and its variants are being found with increasing frequency in the Asia-Pacific region. A 5-year old child with S. pneumoniae meningitis caused by a high-level penicillin resistant strain (MIC = 4 μg/ml) was admitted to a hospital in south...

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Autors principals: Lauderdale, Tsai-Ling, Lee, Wei Yang, Cheng, Ming Fang, Huang, I Fei, Lin, Yu Chen, Hseih, Kai Sheng, Huang, I-Wen, Chiou, Christine C
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: BioMed Central 2005
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1289284/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16259643
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-5-96
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