Resumen

NODA ALBELO, Amauri; VIDAL TALLET, Lázaro Arturo; VIDAL TALLET, Joan Iavier  y  HERNANDEZ ALVAREZ, Leanet. Streptococcus pneumoniae, mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2011, vol.83, n.3, pp. 288-295. ISSN 0034-7531.

The Streptococcus pneumoniae, the main causal agent of community pneumonia, leader in the etiology of the otitis media and the meningitis, during the past three decades has increase in a significant way its resistance to the more used therapeutic agents including the beta-lactamase, macrolides, azalides and fluroquinolones. Adaptive versatility of the microorganism allows it to create mechanisms able to overcome to any of these therapeutical aggressions with a variable degree of effectiveness. Authors made a review of the more important mechanisms involved in acquisition of the antimicrobial resistance by S. pneumoniae and some of risk factors involved in the infection due to resistant S. pneumoniae are specified.

Palabras clave : strepcoccus pneumoniae; mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance; macrolides; fluroquinolones; pneumococcus.

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