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Barriers to Intravenous Penicillin Use for Treatment of Nonmeningitis Pneumococcal Disease
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Barriers to Intravenous Penicillin Use for Treatment of Nonmeningitis Pneumococcal Disease

Jennifer Rosen, Susan Beekmann, Philip Polgreen and Matthew Moore
Journal of clinical microbiology, Vol.48(9), pp.3372-3374
09/2010
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01012-10
PMCID: PMC2937691
PMID: 20610674
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https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01012-10View
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Abstract

Infectious disease physicians were surveyed to determine whether the new penicillin breakpoint change will translate into increased penicillin use and to identify barriers to intravenous (i.v.) penicillin use for pneumococcal infections. The inconvenience of i.v. penicillin may limit its use despite a reduction in numbers of infections considered resistant.
Bacteriology

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