Atypical clinical presentation of meningococcal meningitis: a case report.

A young woman was examined in the Emergency Department for fever, pharyngitis and widespread petechial rash. Physical examination, including neurological evaluation, did not show any other abnormalities. Chest X-ray was negative.

Erythromycin resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes in Italy.

In a prospective study of acute pharyngitis in Italian children, 69 (38.3%) of 180 isolates of Streptococcus pyogenes were resistant to macrolides. S.

Use of antibiotics in an Italian children's hospital, 1993-1995; clinical and economic considerations.

Antibiotic consumption and expenditure was studied during 1993 and 1995 in G. Gaslini children's hospital, an Italian 400-bed paediatric hospital, to see if any changes in use had occurred. There was an increase in the cost of antibacterial agents from 1993 to 1995, with a decrease in the daily cost of antibiotics and in the consumption of antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic agents.