Antibiotic susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizing the nasopharynx of Colombian children with pneumonia

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Aura Lucía Leal, Elizabeth Castañeda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 1997
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Ari
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1020-49891997001000005; https://doaj.org/article/5bd1850d90534d4ab41e2c3522ff61db

Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the principal causal agents of acute respiratory infection (ARI) in children, and its resistance to antibiotics has increased worldwide. This study examined the patterns of susceptibility to antibiotics of S. pneumoniae that had colonized the upper respiratory trac...