VANCOMYCIN TREATMENT OF A STREPTOCOCCUS-P NEUMONIAE PULMONARY INFECTION RESISTANT TO THE PENICILLIN-G

The hospital of St-Etienne, like a lot of hospital centers, describes the apparition of penicillin G resistant strains of S. pneumoniae. Unt il may 1992, Saint-Etienne area was not touched, as there was less tha n one per cent of anormal sensibility to the beta lactam agents. But i n six months time, 2 S. pneumoniae resistant strains have been isolate d ; the last one, a serotype 9, has been responsable of a severe pneum onia which was treated by vancomycin.