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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2005 56(2):437-439; doi:10.1093/jac/dki196
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Increase in penicillin resistance of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae in Brazil after 1999

Maria-Cristina C. Brandileone1,*, Silvana Tadeu Casagrande1, Maria-Luiza L. S. Guerra1, Rosemeire Cobo Zanella1, Ana-Lucia S. Sgambatti de Andrade2 and José-Luis Di Fabio3

1 Adolfo Lutz Institute, São Paulo, Brazil; 2 Institute of Tropical Pathology and Public Health, Federal University of Goiás, Goiás, Brazil; 3 Technology and Health Service Delivery, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Washington, DC, USA

* Corresponding author. Fax: +55-11-3085-3505; E-mail: brandi@ial.sp.gov.br

Keywords: S. pneumoniae , pneumococcal infections , antimicrobial resistance surveillance

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The emergence and spread of resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae during recent decades has promoted improvement of the surveillance of S. pneumoniae in order to generate regional data to guide the empirical treatment of infections.1 In 1993, with the introduction of the SIREVA project in Brazil, proposed by the Pan American Health Organization to the Latin American countries,2 monitoring . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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