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CUETO MONTOYA, Gladys Antonia  e  PEREZ CUETO, María del Carmen. Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from invasive infections: serotypes and antimicrobial resistance. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2007, vol.23, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3038.

The bacterial meningoencephalitis is an important invasive disease, not only because of its frequency, but also because of the severity of its picture. The changes in the epidemiology of the neurological infectious syndromes in Cuba starting from the vaccination against meningococcus BC and Haemophilus infuenzae b have made that Streptococcus pneumoniae be the most frequent causal agent. Due to the increase of the resistance of this microorganism to habitual antibiotics, modifications were made in the conventional therapeutic regimen, mainly in the pediatric meningitis. It is necessary to achieve the isolation in culture of this agent to know the most common serotypes in the country, to attain a conjugated pneumococcal vaccine, and to keep the surveillance of the strains against the antimicrobials.

Palavras-chave : Streptococcus pneumoniae; invasive pneumococcal disease; strains; bacterial resistance; antibiotics; conjugated vaccines; serotypes; antimicrobial..