Streptococcal Bacteria

Multidrug-Resistance On the Rise in the United States

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 18th, 2001

- by Michelle Marble, staff medical writer -- According to recent research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), multidrug-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae are circulating in the United States.

"The emergence of drug-resistant strains of bacteria has complicated treatment decisions and may lead to treatment failures," wrote C.G. Whitney and colleagues, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia. "We examined data on invasive pneumococcal disease in patients identified from 1995 to 1998 in the Active Bacterial Core Surveillance program of the CDC. Pneumococci that had a high level of resistance or had intermediate resistance according to the...

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