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Surgical wound infection caused by a multi drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19A after a total coloproctectomy with ileostomy


Nzoyikorera Néhémie
Khalid Zerouali
Idrissa Diawara
Fakhreddine Maaloum
Khalid Katfy
Sylvestre Kabura
Bahija Zaki
Chehab Farid
Houria Belabbes
Naima Elmdaghri

Abstract

Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) colonizes asymptomatically the human nasopharynx. This pathogen is responsible for sinusitis, otitis media, pneumonia, bacteremia and meningitis. We report the case of a 35-year-old female patient who developed a surgical wound infection by a multi drug resistant S. pneumoniae serotype 19A after a total coloprotectomy. This first found in Morocco shows the implication of multidrug resistant S. pneumoniae in surgical wound infections.


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