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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2002) 50, 21-26
© 2002 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

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Susceptibility patterns of bacteria causing community-acquired respiratory infections in Spain: the SAUCE project

J. García-de-Lomas1,2,*, C. García-Rey3, L. López1, C. Gimeno and the Spanish Surveillance Group for Respiratory Pathogens

1 Instituto Valenciano de Microbiología, 2 Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine and University Hospital, Valencia; 3 Medical Department, GlaxoSmithKline, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain

Abstract

Multicentre surveillance is essential in order to monitor the prevalence of certain resistance phenotypes and to identify rapidly the emergence of new ones. However, many surveillance studies are based either on a relatively small number of isolates from a single country, or on a large number of isolates from many different countries and so are not equally meaningful. Extensive national multicentre surveillance would provide a more reliable strategy for assessing the extent of antimicrobial resistance in individual countries. This article describes Spanish experience with the surveillance network SAUCE, and summarizes the main results on antimicrobial resistance in the three key bacterial pathogens involved in community-acquired respiratory tract infections in Spain: Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pyogenes.

Footnotes

Other members of the Spanish Surveillance Group for Respiratory Pathogens are listed in the Acknowledgements.

* Correspondence address. Department of Microbiology, University Hospital and School of Medicine, Avda Blasco Ibañez 17, 46010 Valencia, Spain. Fax: +34-96-356-19-86; E-mail: jglomas{at}retemail.es


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