Emedinews : Dr Good Dr Bad : A patient with community acquired pneumonia due to S. pneumoniae

Situation: A patient with community acquired pneumonia due to S. pneumoniae came with resistance to penicillin and erythromycin.

Dr Bad: This may happen.

Dr Good: It is multidrug-resistant S. pneumoniae.

Lesson: Multidrug-resistant S. pneumoniae (MDRSP) is defined as resistance to more than one antimicrobial class (e.g, penicillin-resistant and macrolide-resistant).