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Geographic distribution of penicillin resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Brazil: genetic relatedness.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 1998
Brandileone M C, Di Fabio J L, Vieira V S, Zanella R C, Casagrande S T, Pignatari A C, Tomasz A
Abstract excerpt
From January 1993 through December 1996, 1,252 Streptococcus pneumoniae strains from different geographic regions of Brazil were studied for penicillin (Pen) susceptibility. All pneumococci were isolated from normally sterile fluids from patients, newborns to 88 years old. Pen resistance (R) had a mean rate of 15.1%, with 14.5% of strains showing intermediate level Pen-R and 0.6% showing high-level Pen-R. Similar...
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