Abstract

Jan. 19, 1992: The weather outside is biting, frigid and overcast. I renewed the contract with the laboratory last week. For the last three years, the reference laboratory has asked if I still want to check the penicillin susceptibility of every pneumococcal middle-ear isolate: Certainly we9ll be happy to do it for you, doctor. (Snickering. Waste your money.) Julia, our laboratory technician, summoned me to examine the blood agar plate. The bacterial colonies from the middle-ear fluid of an 18-month-old child with refractory acute otitis media were alpha-hemolytic and inhibited by the optochin disk. Obvious pneumococci.

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