Affiliation:
1. Department of Internal Medicine, J.G. Strijdom Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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