Penicillin-resistant pneumococcus: practical implications
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Penicillin resistant pneumococcus.
Resistance to other antimicrobial agents and chloramphenicol has also been reported. 4,5 Multiple resistant strains have been responsible for infection with a high mortality rate. 5 To our knowledge, isolation of penicillin resistant pneumococci has not been documented in this region. We report the isolation of a penicillin resistant strain from the throat of an eleven-month old baby boy and th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal de Pediatria
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0021-7557
DOI: 10.2223/jped.374