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Antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae found in Malawian children.

Vaccine Weekly

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2003 AUG 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae was found in Malawian children.

"Nasopharyngeal swabs were taken from 906 Malawian children younger than five years old visiting rural health clinics. Pneumococcal colonization was high, 84% among all children, and occurred early, 65% of it in children younger than three months old. Among pneumococcal isolates 46% were nonsusceptible to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and 21% were nonsusceptible to penicillin," researchers in the United States report.

"Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole use in the previous month was a risk factor for trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and penicillin non-susceptibility," stated Daniel R. Feikin and collaborators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Forty-three percent of isolates were serotypes included in the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, and 37% were vaccine-related serotypes, particularly 6A and 19A."

Feikin and his coauthors published their study in ...

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