Pneumonia
New pneumonia in children data have been reported by scientists at National Health Research Institutes
Published in Vaccine Weekly, January 31st, 2007
New research, "Serotype and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from Taiwanese children: comparison of nasopharyngeal and clinical isolates," is the subject of a report. According to a study from Taiwan, "This report describes the serotypes and antimicrobial resistance patterns of 860 strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from nasopharyngeal (NP) carriers and clinical specimens collected from Taiwanese children during the years 1997 to 2003. The 6 most common serotypes/groups were 23F, 19F, 6B, 14, 6A, and 3."
"These accounted for 652/716 (91.1%) of the NP and 131/144 (91.0%) of the clinical isolates. Serotype 23F was the...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-01-31)
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