Gender as a risk factor for both antibiotic resistance and infection with pediatric serogroups/serotypes, in HIV-infected and -uninfected adults with pneumococcal bacteremia

J Infect Dis. 2004 Jun 1;189(11):1996-2000. doi: 10.1086/386548. Epub 2004 May 12.

Abstract

Among 1022 adults with either pneumococcal bacteremia or meningitis, 85.5% of women and 74.7% of men were infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A multivariable regression analysis found more pediatric serogroups/serotypes (odds ratio [OR], 1.59 [95% confidence interval [CI], 1.18-2.15]) and more penicillin-nonsusceptible strains (OR, 1.65 [95% CI, 1.06-2.59]) in women than in men; it was also found that bacteremic women were more likely to be infected with HIV (OR, 1.85 [95% CI, 1.26-2.71]) and to be younger (OR, 1.72 [95% CI, 1.25-2.36]) than were men. Thus, conjugate pneumococcal vaccination of children may reduce, in particular, both antibiotic resistance and the burden of conjugate vaccine serotype pneumococcal disease in young, HIV-infected women.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Age Factors
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Bacteremia / epidemiology
  • Bacteremia / microbiology
  • Bacteremia / virology
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Female
  • HIV / immunology*
  • HIV Infections / epidemiology
  • HIV Infections / microbiology*
  • HIV Infections / virology
  • HIV Seropositivity / epidemiology
  • HIV Seropositivity / immunology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Middle Aged
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Pneumococcal Infections / drug therapy
  • Pneumococcal Infections / epidemiology
  • Pneumococcal Infections / microbiology
  • Pneumococcal Infections / virology*
  • Regression Analysis
  • Sex Factors
  • South Africa / epidemiology
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae* / drug effects