The characteristics of nine children with community acquired pneumonia with evidence of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae coinfection are described.

susceptibility test were performed on Mueller-Hinton agar with 5% horse blood according to NCCLS recommendations with the following discs: cefuroxime (30/jg), ceftizoxime (30 fig), cefpodoxime (30 /ig), cefixime (30 fig), cefaclor (30 ug) and loracarbef (10 and 30/ig). Agar and discs were from Sanofi Diagnostic Pasteur (Marnes-la-Coquette, France) except loracarbef prepared from standard refere...

Pendahuluan: Pneumonia adalah infeksi akut yang mengenai jaringan paru-paru (alveoli) dapat disebabkan oleh bakteri, virus, dan jamur. Sebagian besar bakteri. Adapun gejala berupa panas tinggi disertai batuk berdahak, napas cepat (frekuensi nafas >50 kali/menit), sesak, serta lainnya (sakit kepala, gelisah nafsu makan berkurang). Tujuan: untuk mengetahui aktivitas anti bakteri konsentrasi pa...

Two oligonucleotide primer sets for the discrimination of Streptococcus pneumoniae from "pneumococcus-like" oral streptococcal isolates by PCR were developed. Genomic subtractive hybridization was performed to search for differences between Streptococcus pneumoniae strain WU2 and the most closely related oral streptococcus, Streptococcus mitis strain 903. We identified 19 clones that contained ...

Citation: Intra J, Besana S, Savarino C and Brambilla P (2017) Serotype Distribution and Antimicrobial Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae Invasive Isolates Collected at the Italian Hospital of Desio, Lombardy, from 2008 to 2016. Front. Public Health 5:169. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00169 Serotype Distribution and antimicrobial Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae Invasive Isolates Collected...

introduction acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (adem) is an acute inflammatory and demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, resulting in various neurological symptoms. usually, the disease appears following vaccination or systemic viral infections. in rare cases, the disease appears following pneumococcal infections. case presentation the patient was a 27 year-old man who was ref...

The aims of present paper were to determine the susceptibility of the strains to the most usual antibiotics in clinical practice and to review the current recommendations to guide the most appropriate treatment. During the period october 2000 to september 2002, the patient's data (age and sex), source of the sample, diagnosis and antibiotic susceptibility were collected on Streptococcus pneumon...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of invasive infections among both young children and elderly people. Common serotypes causing invasive diseases and the emergence of carriers of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Iran is not yet known. Past-vaccine surveillance studies of serotype prevalence patterns in Iran are necessary to monitor the epidemiology of Strept...

Background: Antibacterial proteins are widely expressed in snake venoms. Previously, we have isolated two immunodominant proteins with molecular weights of 14 and 65kD from the snake venom of Naja naja oxiana (N. oxiana). It was demonstrated that they had potent inhibitory effects against gram-positive bacteria, S. aureus and B. subtilis but were less effective against gram-negative bacteria, s...

INTRODUCTION Community-acquired meningitis is a monomicrobial infection caused by either viruses or bacteria in the vast majority of patients. We report here one exceptional case of a patient with mixed bacterial meningitis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus pyogenes. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 68-year-old immunocompromised Caucasian man suffering from otitis and...