Trends in antimicrobial resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children in a Turkish hospital

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 381-384

  Şener, Burçin ^a   Günalp, Ayfer ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFACLOR; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SEROTYPE; SPUTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TURKEY;

EID: 0031693150     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/42.3.381     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Allen, K. D. (1991). Penicillin-resistant pneumococci. Journal of Hospital Infection 17, 3-13.
2. Appelbaum, P. C. (1992). Antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae: an overview. Clinical Infectious Diseases 15, 77-83.
3. Gür, D., Tunçkanat, F., Şener, B., Kanra, G. & Akalin, H. E. (1994). Penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae in Turkey. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 13, 440-1.
4. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. (1997). Methods for Dilution Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests for Bacteria that Grow Aerobically - Fourth Edition. Approved Standard M7-A4. NCCLS, Villanova, PA.
5. Lister, P. D. (1995). Multiply resistant-pneumococcus: therapeutic problems in the management of serious infections. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 14, Suppl. 1, 18-25.
6. Marton, A. (1992). Pneumococcal antimicrobial resistance: the problem in Hungary. Clinical Infectious Diseases 15, 106-11.
7. Linares, J., Pallares, R., Alonso, T., Perez, J. L., Ayats, J., Gudiol, F. et al. (1992). Trends in antimicrobial resistance of clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Bellvitge Hospital, Barcelona, Spain (1979-1990). Clinical Infectious Diseases 15, 99-105.
8. Geslin, P., Buu-Hoi, A., Fremaux, A. & Acar, J. F. (1992). Antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae: an epidemiological survey in France, 1970-1990. Clinical Infectious Diseases 15, 95-8.
9. Reichler, M. R., Rakovsky, J., Sobotova, A., Slacikova, M., Hlavacova, B., Hill, B. et al. (1995). Multiple antimicrobial resistance of pneumococci in children with otitis media, bacteremia and meningitis in Slovakia. Journal of Infectious Diseases 171, 1491-6.
10. Markiewicz, Z. & Tomasz, A. (1989). Variation in penicillin-binding protein patterns of penicillin resistant clinical isolates of pneumococci. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 27, 405-10.