Antimicrobial resistance in nosocomial bloodstream infection associated with pneumonia and the value of systematic surveillance cultures in an adult intensive care unit.

Objective: To study the occurrence of multiple-drug-resistant pathogens in nosocomial bloodstream infection associated with pneumonia. To evaluate prediction of multiple drug resistance by systematic surveillance cultures.

Design: A retrospective study of a prospectively gathered cohort.

Antibiotic susceptibility of acute otitis media pathogens in otitis-prone Belgian children.

Unlabelled: A regional surveillance study was carried out in children with recurrent acute otitis media (AOM) to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of three common AOM pathogens. Susceptibility to relevant antimicrobial agents was determined on 149 Streptococcus pneumoniae, 246 Haemophilus influenzae and 119 Moraxella catarrhalis strains isolated between January 1999 and January 2002, either from the nasopharynx or middle ear of 74 children with recurrent AOM, the majority (77%) being otitis-prone. Overall pneumococcal resistance to penicillin was 9.