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Article: Multidrug-Resistant streptococcus pneumoniae in a child care center -- Southwest Georgia, December 2000.
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- January 4, 2002
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On December 18, 2000, public health officials in southwest Georgia contacted the Georgia Division of Public Health (GDPH) about a child aged 11 months hospitalized for refractory otitis media. Eight days before hospitalization, a culture of drainage obtained from the child's middle ear revealed Streptococcus pneumoniae resistant to penicillin, clindamycin, erythromycin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, and tetracycline (index strain). The child attended a local child care center. GDPH and CDC conducted an investigation to determine the rate of pneumococcal carriage among attendees of the child care center, to identify risk factors for carriage of the index strain, and to ...