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Meningitis caused by a penicillin‐ and chloramphenicol‐resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
Author(s) -
Collig Peter J.,
Bell Jan,
Hufton Ian W.,
Mitchell David
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb120739.x
Subject(s) - streptococcus pneumoniae , chloramphenicol , meningitis , penicillin , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , pneumococcal infections , antibiotics , drug resistance , biology , pediatrics
We report here a case of a five‐month‐old infant with pneumococcal meningitis, which was both penicillin‐ and chloramphenicol‐ resistant, and the difficulties that arose, both in the laboratory diagnosis of the resistance and in the therapy of this infection.