Streptococcus pneumoniae emerging with very high resistance to penicillin

According to recent research from the United States, "Penicillin resistance threatens the treatment of pneumococcal infections. We used sentinel hospital surveillance (1978 to 2001) and population-based surveillance (1995 to 2001) in seven states in the Active Bacterial Core surveillance of the Emerging Infections Program Network to document the emergence in the United States of invasive pneumococcal isolates with very-high-level penicillin resistance (MIC {{>=}}8 mcg/mL). Very-high-level penicillin resistance was first detected in 1995 in multiple pneumococcal serotypes...

Want to see the full article?

• Purchase this article for only $3.00