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To the Editor: In their study of the prevalence of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in the United States, Whitney et al. (Dec. 28 issue)¹ report differences in the prevalence of resistance according to region, age, and race. We investigated whether these findings reflect patterns found in hospitalized patients and evaluated recent changes in the prevalence of drug-resistant streptococcus species among inpatients.

We used the Solucient projected inpatient data base for 1997 through 2000. This is an all-payer data base that contains information on more than 17 million inpatient discharges in the United States each year and has been used for comparisons . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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