Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 13th, 2006 According to a
report from the United States, "Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
use has caused a decrease in the incidence of recurrent and
refractory acute otitis media in the United States and a shift
in the predominant pathogens. Now Haemophilus influenzae is the
most commonly isolated organism (about 60% of the total), and
more than half the strains make beta-lactamase, rendering them
resistant to amoxicillin. Penicillin nonsusceptible pneumococci,
the main target of antibiotic therapy in the 1990s, has become a
much less common isolate (10%-25% of the total)." Want to see
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