PMID: 9650939Jul 3, 1998Paper

Extremely high prevalence of nasopharyngeal carriage of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae among children in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Journal of Clinical Microbiology
C C ChiouK S Hsieh

Abstract

Resistance (intermediate and high) to penicillin among Streptococcus pneumoniae strains is an emerging problem worldwide. From 1995 to 1997, isolates of S. pneumoniae not susceptible to penicillin were seen with increasing frequency from blood, cerebrospinal fluid, pleural fluid, and middle ear fluid from pediatric patients at the Veterans General Hospital-Kaohsiung. To determine the prevalence of carriage of these penicillin-nonsusceptible S. pneumoniae isolates, we obtained nasopharyngeal swab specimens from 2,905 children (ages, 2 months to 7 years) attending day-care centers or kindergartens or seen in our outpatient clinic. S. pneumoniae was isolated from 611 children, and 584 strains were available for analysis. The oxacillin disc test was used as a screening test to evaluate penicillin susceptibility. The MICs of 11 antibiotics (penicillin, cefaclor, cefuroxime, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, imipenem, chloramphenicol, clarithromycin, rifampin, vancomycin, and teicoplanin) were determined by the E-test. Only 169 (29%) of the strains were susceptible to penicillin; 175 (30%) strains were intermediately resistant and 240 (41%) were highly resistant. The isolates also demonstrated high rates of resistance to other beta-lactams (4...Continue Reading

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