Bacteremic Pneumonia Caused by Extensively Drug-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Bacteremic pneumonia caused by extensively drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae.
The emergence of antimicrobial resistance threatens the successful treatment of pneumococcal infections. Here we report a case of bacteremic pneumonia caused by an extremely drug-resistant strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae, nonsusceptible to at least one agent in all classes but vancomycin and linezolid, posing an important new public health threat in our region.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0095-1137
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01642-12