Activity of Telithromycin against Penicillin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates Recovered from French Children with Invasive and Noninvasive Infections

AUTOR(ES)

Bingen, Edouard

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

We compared the activities of telithromycin, erythromycin, azithromycin, josamycin, penicillin G, amoxicillin, cefpodoxime, and ceftriaxone against invasive and noninvasive non-penicillin-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates recovered from children. Of the 186 isolates tested, 89% were positive for erm(B) by PCR. Telithromycin had the lowest MICs, with MICs at which 90% of the isolates tested are inhibited of 0.032 and 0.25 μg/ml for erythromycin-sensitive and -resistant isolates, respectively.

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