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Population structure, antimicrobial resistance, and mutation frequencies of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from cystic fibrosis patients.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2005
del Campo Rosa, Morosini María-Isabel, de la Pedrosa Elia Gómez-G, Fenoll Asunción, Muñoz-Almagro Carmen, Máiz Luis, Baquero Fernando, Cantón Rafael
Abstract excerpt
Forty-eight Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates recovered from sputum samples from 26 cystic fibrosis (CF) patients attending our CF unit (1995 to 2003) were studied. Mean yearly incidence of isolation was 5.5%, and all were strains recovered from young patients (< or = 12 years). The isolation was linked to clinical exacerbation in 35% of the cases, but only 27% of these were not accompanied by other CF pathogens....
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