Trends in antimicrobial resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children in a Turkish hospital.
The antimicrobial susceptibilities of 143 isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae recovered from the sputa of children with lower respiratory tract infections in a Turkish university hospital were determined. Five isolates (3.5%) were resistant and 57 isolates (39.9%) intermediately resistant to penicillin. The most common serotype among these resistant isolates was serotype 23, followed by serotypes 19 and 14. The overall resistance rates were 31% for tetracycline, 11% for erythromycin and cefaclor, 4% for chloramphenicol, 2% for cefotaxime and 0% for vancomycin. The data highlight the need for surveillance of resistance and serotype distribution of S. pneumoniae in our geographical area.
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Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Microbiology, Ankara, Turkey.
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014421:Turkey