Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: Clinical Features, Serotypes, and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Cases Involving Patients with and Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
Frankel R, Virata M, Hardalo C, Altice F, Friedland G. Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: Clinical Features, Serotypes, and Antimicrobial Resistance Patterns in Cases Involving Patients with and Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases 1996, 23: 577-584. PMID: 8879783, DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.3.577.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInvasive pneumococcal diseasePneumococcal diseaseClinical featuresPenicillin-resistant pneumococcal infectionsHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diseaseHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infectionCommon capsular typesSource of bacteremiaImmunodeficiency virus infectionOverall mortality rateAntibiotic susceptibility patternPolyvalent pneumococcal vaccineType 9VCommon risk factorsPenicillin-resistant isolatesAntimicrobial resistance patternsPneumococcal infectionPneumococcal vaccineHIV infectionHIV serostatusHIV statusRecurrence rateInvasive diseaseRisk factorsSusceptibility patterns