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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 1175-1178Publisher
ELSEVIER TAIWAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmii.2020.10.003
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Antibiotic resistance profile; Community-acquired pneumonia; Serotype; Streptococcus pneumoniae
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- Ministry of Research, Tech-nology, and Higher Education/National Agency for Research and Innovation of the Republic of Indonesia
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [NU2GGH001852-03]
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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of community-acquired pneumonia, with serotype 3 being the most predominant. A significant proportion of isolates show resistance to tetracycline.
Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the primary causes of community-acquired pneumonia. The vaccine serotypes were dominant and could be isolated in 14% of adult patients, with serotype 3 being the most predominant (25%), followed by 6A, 6B, and 7F. Approximately, 44% of the isolates showed resistance to tetracycline. Copyright (c) 2020, Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/).
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