Invasive pneumococcal disease in adults in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

摘要

The recent paper in CMI by Reinert et al. presented interesting information on invasive pneumococcal disease in adults in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany, which was collected pro-spectively. It was reported that blood cultures were obtained in 464 cases, and that 152 of these (only 11 grew Streptococcus pneumoniae) were positive. However, no information was provided concerning the 141 non-pneumococci isolates. These data are of extreme importance, as hardly any data concerning bacteraemic community-acquired pneumonia are available.