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- Title
Effects of New Penicillin Susceptibility Breakpoints for Streptococcus pneumoniae -- United States, 2006-2007.
- Authors
Reingold, A.; Gershman, K.; Hadler, J.; Harrison, L.; Glennen, A.; Lesher, L.; Baumbach, J.; Smith, G. L.; Thomas, A.; Schaffner, W. S.; Jorgensen, J.; Beall, B.; Moore, M.; Deutscher, M.; Farley, M. M.; Lynfield, R.; Whitney, C. G.
- Abstract
The article presents an analysis of the effects of penicillin susceptibility breakpoints for Streptococcus pneumoniae in the U.S. from 2006 to 2007. The analysis found that the percentage of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) nonmeningitis S. pneumoniae isolates categorized as susceptible and resistant to penicillin changed from 74%, 15.0% and 10.3% under the former breakpoints to 93.2%, 5.6% and 1.2%, respectively, under the new breakpoints. Cases of IPD were identified through the Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABC) to conduct the analysis.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PENICILLIN; ANTIBACTERIAL agents; STREPTOCOCCUS pneumoniae; STREPTOCOCCUS
- Publication
MMWR: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, 2008, Vol 57, Issue 50, p1353
- ISSN
0149-2195
- Publication type
Article