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- Title
Antibiotic susceptibility and molecular epidemiology of nasopharyngeal pneumococci from Spanish children.
- Authors
Sánchez-Tatay, D; Arroyo, L A; Tarragó, D; Lirola, M J; Porras, A; Fenoll, A; Hausdorff, W P; Brueggemann, A B; Obando, I
- Abstract
Nasopharyngeal pneumococci were collected from 635 Spanish children aged 6 months to 6 years attending four primary healthcare centres (n = 276) or two hospital emergency rooms (n = 359); 36% of the children had received >/=1 dose of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7). Overall, the carriage rate of Streptococcus pneumoniae was 31%, with no significant differences in carriage rates according to setting. Colonization with vaccine serotypes was significantly associated with the absence of PCV7 immunization (29.4% vs. 5.9%, p <0.001). Forty-seven per cent of all isolates were penicillin- and/or erythromycin-non-susceptible; 13 international antibiotic-resistant clones were represented among non-susceptible pneumococci and were similarly distributed among vaccine and non-vaccine serotypes.
- Publication
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2008, Vol 14, Issue 8, p797
- ISSN
1469-0691
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02025.x