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Joice Neves Reis1, Soraia Machado Cordeiro, Steven J Coppola, Kátia Salgado, Maria G S Carvalho, Lúcia M Teixeira, Terry A Thompson, Richard R Facklam, Mitermayer G Reis, Albert I Ko.
Abstract
Penicillin-nonsusceptible strains were isolated from 15% of 303 individuals with pneumococcal meningitis identified during a 4-year surveillance study in Salvador, Brazil. The estimated rate of coverage of the seven-valent conjugate vaccine was 74% among patients <5 years of age and 94% among those infected with nonsusceptible isolates, indicating that the use of conjugate vaccines may be an approach to the control of emerging penicillin resistance in Brazil.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 11773131 PMCID: PMC120107 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.1.275-277.2002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948