Journal article

Hospital surveillance predicts community pneumococcal antibiotic resistance in Vietnam

VTT Dai, J Beissbarth, PV Thanh, PT Hoan, HNL Thuy, T N. Huu, K Bright, C Satzke, EK Mulholland, B Temple, HC Smith-Vaughan

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2020

Abstract

Background: In Vietnam, Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of disease, including meningitis. Antibiotics are available without physician prescription at community pharmacies and rates of antibiotic nonsusceptibility are high. Appropriate treatment and antibiotic stewardship need to be informed by surveillance data. Objectives: To report community-based pneumococcal antibiotic susceptibility testing data from children enrolled in a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine trial in Ho Chi Minh City [the Vietnam Pneumococcal Project (ViPP)] and compare these with published hospital-based data from the nationwide Survey of Antibiotic Resistance (SOAR) to determine whether hospital surveillance da..

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (GNT566792). C.S. was supported by an Australian NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (GNT10879570) and a Veski Inspiring Women Fellowship. The Murdoch Children's Research Institute was supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. H.C.S.-V. was supported by a Fellowship under the NHMRC-funded HOT NORTH collaboration (GNT1131932).