Research on the treatment of pneumonia in children by macrolide antibiotics.

To observe a therapeutic effect of macrolide antibiotics in children with pneumonia. Fifty-four cases of children with pneumonia were randomly divided into an observation group (n=30) and a control group (n=24). The observation group was treated with macrolide antibiotics and cefoperazone/sulbactam.

[Antimicrobial resistance and penicillin resistance-associated genes of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from children with respiratory tract infection].

Objective: To investigate the antimicrobial resistance and penicillin resistance-associated genes (TEM and pbp2B) of Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) isolated from sputum specimens of Guangzhou children with respiratory tract infection.

Methods: E-test and Kirby-Bauer methods were applied to detect the antibiotic susceptibility of 44 strains of S.

[Surveillance of antimicrobial susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Hemophilus influenzae isolated from children in Guangzhou area between 2003 and 2004].

Objective: To investigate the situation of antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae (Sp) and Hemophilus influenzae (Hi) clinical isolates from children in Guangzhou area.

Methods: The authors cultured, isolated and identified the Sp and Hi strains from nasopharyngeal secretion of patients who visited Guangzhou Children's Hospital for upper respiratory tract infection between 2003 and 2004. K-B disc diffusion and E-test for antibiotic susceptibility were performed for these clinical isolates.