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Article: Careful Diagnosis of Childhood Infections Key to Limiting Antibiotic Resistance.(Brief Article)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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MIAMI BEACH -- Increasing antibiotic resistance gives urgency to the need for diagnostic precision in treating childhood infections.
Agents should be chosen with probable organisms and their sensitivity in mind, Dr. Sarah S. Long said at the annual Masters of Pediatrics conference sponsored by the University of Miami.
Pneumococcus is the major pathogen that requires antibiotic therapy: It causes 80% of occult bacteremia, half of bacterial meningitis and pneumonia, and 40% of otitis media and sinusitis.
Increasing pneumococcal resistance to penicillin has been widely observed. It is stepwise: 20% 50% of infections are classified as intermediate ...