Prevalence of nasopharyngeal pneumococcal colonization in children and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of carriage isolates

Prevalence of nasopharyngeal pneumococcal colonization in children and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of carriage isolates

Nasopharyngeal (NP) pneumococcal carriage predisposes children to pneumococcal infections. Defining the proportion of pneumococcal isolates that are antibiotic-resistant enables the appropriate choice of empiric therapies. The antibiogram of NP carriage isolates derived from a pediatric population f...

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Main Authors: Julie Y. Zhou, Megan Isaacson-Schmid, Elizabeth C. Utterson, Elizabeth M. Todd, Michelle McFarland, Janardan Sivapalan, Joan M. Niehoff, Carey-Ann D. Burnham, S. Celeste Morley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-10-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Streptococcus pneumoniae
colonization
epidemiology
antimicrobial resistance
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971215002052

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