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卷 371, 期 9618, 页码 1108-1113出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60350-5
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- PHS HHS [U62/CCU022901, U60/CCU022088] Funding Source: Medline
Background Use of fluoroquinolones to treat paediatric cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis could affect the emergence of resistance to this class of drugs. Our aim was to estimate the incidence of, and risk factors for, invasive pneumococcal disease caused by fluoroquinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in children in South Africa. Methods 21521 cases of invasive pneumococcal disease were identified by active national surveillance between 2000 and 2006, with enhanced surveillance at 15 sentinel hospitals in seven provinces introduced in 2003. We screened 19 404 isolates (90% of cases) for ofloxacin resistance and measured levofloxacin minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) for all isolates that were ofloxacin resistant. Non-susceptibility to levofloxacin was defined as an MIC of 4 mg/L or more. Nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage was assessed in 65 children in two tuberculosis hospitals where invasive pneumococcal disease caused by levofloxacin-non-susceptible S pneumoniae had been detected. Findings 12 cases of invasive pneumococcal disease were identified as being non-susceptible to levofloxacin, an in children aged under 15 years. All isolates were rifampicin resistant. Outcome was known for 11 of these patients; five (45%) died. Invasive disease caused by levofloxacin-non-susceptible S pneumoniae was associated with a history of tuberculosis treatment (eight [89%] of nine children with non-susceptible isolates had a history of treatment vs 396 [18%] of 2202 children with susceptible isolates; relative risk [RR] 35 . 78, 95% Cl 4.49-285.30) and nosocomial invasive pneumococcal disease (eight [80%] of ten children with non-susceptible isolates had acquired infection nosocomially vs 109 [4%] of 2709 with susceptible isolates; RR 88.96, 19.10-414.29). 31 (89%) of 35 pneumococcal carriers had bacteria that were non-susceptible to levofloxacin. Interpretation Our data suggest that the use of fluoroquinolones to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children has led to the emergence of invasive pneumococcal disease caused by levofloxacin-non-susceptible S pneumoniae and its nosocomial spread. Funding National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service (South Africa), US Agency for International Development Antimicrobial Resistance Initiative, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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