Fogarty C, Goldschmidt R, Bush K
Spartanburg Regional Health Care System, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA.
Clin Infect Dis. 2000 Aug;31(2):613-5. doi: 10.1086/313976.
Three patients with bacteremic pneumonia caused by multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae were treated unsuccessfully with azithromycin. One S. pneumoniae isolate carried a mef determinant for an efflux pump; a second isolate had an erm determinant. All 3 patients were successfully treated with levofloxacin, an antipneumococcal fluoroquinolone.
三名由耐多药肺炎链球菌引起菌血症性肺炎的患者接受阿奇霉素治疗未成功。一株肺炎链球菌分离株携带一个与外排泵有关的mef决定簇;另一株分离株有一个erm决定簇。所有3名患者均接受抗肺炎球菌氟喹诺酮类药物左氧氟沙星成功治疗。