Antimicrobial Resistance among Clinical Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates from Children

OBJECTIVE To investigate conditions and features of antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae clincal isolates.METHODS Totally 203 strains of S.pneumoniae were isolated from Jan 2005 to Dec 2006 in Yuying Pediatric Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College.Then the antimicrobial susceptibility test to ten drugs and the MICs of penicillin were detected.RESULTS In 203 S.pneumoniae strains,all were sensitive to vancomycin,were sensitive to 98.0%,levofloxacin,the sensitivity of penicillin,erythromycin,tetracycline,clindamycin and SMZ was lower than 15.0%.The penicillin insensitivity of 203 strains reached 86.2%.There were 24 of the 203 strains for which penicillin MICs were ≥4 μg/ml.CONCLUSIONS S.pneumoniae clinical strains are resistant to most of the commonly used antibiotics.The percentage of high level multidrug resistant strains is very high.Vancomycin and levofloxacin are the most sensitive drugs for S.pneumoniae clinical strains,the next are chlorophenicol.Erythromycin,SMZ,tetracycline and clindamycin aren′t useful in treating S.pneumoniae infection.