[Pneumococcal osteoarticular infections in children admitted to a Pediatric Reference Hospital from Misiones, Argentina. Thirteen years of surveillance].

Autor: Martínez ME; Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Químicas y Naturales, Departamento de Microbiología, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina; CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina., Benítez J; Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Químicas y Naturales, Departamento de Microbiología, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina., Leguizamón LB; Hospital Provincial de Pediatría Dr. Fernando Barreyro, Laboratorio de Bacteriología, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina., López OH; Hospital Provincial de Pediatría Dr. Fernando Barreyro, Laboratorio de Bacteriología, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina., Grenón SL; Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Químicas y Naturales, Departamento de Microbiología, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina., Mollerach ME; Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Instituto de Investigaciones en Bacteriología y Virología Molecular, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina; CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Departamento de Microbiología, Inmunología, Biotecnología y Genética, Cátedra de Microbiología, Buenos Aires, Argentina., von Specht MH; Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Químicas y Naturales, Departamento de Microbiología, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina; Hospital Provincial de Pediatría Dr. Fernando Barreyro, Laboratorio de Bacteriología, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina. Electronic address: mvonspecht@fceqyn.unam.edu.ar.
Jazyk: Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj: Revista Argentina de microbiologia [Rev Argent Microbiol] 2021 Jul-Sep; Vol. 53 (3), pp. 220-224. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Feb 02.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ram.2020.10.003
Abstrakt: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a rare cause of osteoarticular infections. We describe 5documented cases that occurred in 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017 in patients admitted to the Pediatric Provincial Reference Hospital of Misiones. These cases corresponded to a 4-year-old boy and 4 girls aged 11, 10, 6 years and 4 months with a diagnosis of osteomyelitis of the scapula and humerus, arthritis of the hip, ankle and osteomyelitis of the distal fibula. All of them were in good general condition on admission and one of them was seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus. All the recovered isolates were susceptible to β-lactams and only one isolate showed joint resistance to macrolides and tetracycline. Three isolates were serotyped, 2of which carried vaccine serotypes (19F and 7F). Despite its low frequency, the etiology of S.pneumoniae should be considered among the osteoarticular infections. Our findings enhance the role of the Bacteriology laboratory in the diagnosis by microbiological culture and contribute to documenting the epidemiological behavior of this pathogen.
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Databáze: MEDLINE