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Antibiotic susceptibility and serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from Hungary

Author(s) -

Orsolya Dobay

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkg171

Subject(s) - streptococcus pneumoniae , serotype , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , streptococcaceae , antibacterial agent , medicine , biology , virology

Hungary has reported one of the highest incidences of penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae in Europe since the 1970s and is still cited accordingly. However, since the end of the 1990s the resistance of pneumococci in Hungary has not been investigated. In this study we assessed the current situation, particularly to establish whether the incidence of resistance is increasing and if this could be related to the spread of specific strain types.

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