Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in a South African child in a tuberculosis treatment facility

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1020-1021

  Von Gottberg, Anne ^a   Ludewick, Herbert ^a   Bamber, Sheila ^b   Govind, Chetna ^c   Sturm, A Willem ^c   Klugman, Keith P ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b King George V Hospital Durban   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Fluoroquinolone resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae; Multidrug resistance; Pneumococci

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFOTAXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TUBERCULOSIS;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0345708251     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000095430.29265.7f     Document Type: Article

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