Publications by authors named "Georgios Samonis"
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- A nationwide study in Greece assessed pneumococcal carriage in healthy preschoolers before vaccination and identified factors linked to antibiotic-resistant strains.
- Researchers collected samples and demographic data from 2536 children, discovering a 29.41% carriage rate of pneumococci, with resistance linked to recent antibiotic use.
- The main resistant strains were primarily serotypes 19F, 14, 9V, 23F, and 6B, suggesting that a vaccination strategy combined with responsible antibiotic usage could help manage pneumococcal resistance in the community.
Two rare cases of Gemella morbillorum endocarditis, caused by a strain resistant to penicillin and gentamicin are reported. G. morbillorum is usually sensitive to beta-lactams and aminoglycosides.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOchrobactrum anthropi is an emerging pathogen in immunocompromised patients but infections with the bacterium have very rarely been documented in normal hosts. We report the characteristics of O. anthropi bacteraemia in 11 immunocompetent children, aged 2 months to 7 y, hospitalized in a general hospital during a 5-y period.
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