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Fatal infection caused by a multiply resistant type 3 pneumococcus
J B Lawrenson1, K P Klugman, J I Eidelman
1Department of Internal Medicine, J.G. Strijdom Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|August 1, 1988
Abstract:
The most virulent pneumococcal serotype (type 3) has not to date been associated with multiple antimicrobial resistance. We report an unusual gastrointestinal presentation of fatal septicemia caused by a multiply resistant type 3 pneumococcus in a setting of increasing prevalence of multiple resistance, including resistance to erythromycin, clindamycin, and tetracycline.