Antibiotic Resistance

Streptococcus pneumoniae Remains Susceptible to Some Antimicrobials

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 17th, 2000

Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria have increasingly grown resistant to antibiotics that have been used to treat infections for years. Now researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, have classified the antimicrobial susceptibilities of S. pneumoniae isolates from several Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Their report was recently published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.

Investigators recovered 1100 S. pneumoniae isolates from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, and the West Indies. All isolates were obtained in 1997.

Only 23.6% of...

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