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BMC Pediatrics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 3 among Costa Rican Children with Otitis Media: clinical, epidemiological characteristics and antimicrobial resistance patterns 1 1 1 3,4 Arturo Abdelnour* , Carolina Soley , Silvia Guevara , Nurith Porat , Ron Dagan3,4 and Adriano Arguedas 1,2 Address: 1Instituto de Atención Pediátrica, San José, Costa Rica, 2Universidad de Ciencias Médicas, San José, Costa Rica, 3Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel and 4Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer- Sheva, Israel Email: Arturo Abdelnour* - aabdelnour@; Carolina Soley - csoley@; Silvia Guevara - sguevara@; Nurith Porat - npurat@bgu.ac.il; Ron Dagan - rdagan@bgu.ac.il; Adriano Arguedas - aarguedas@bgu.ac.il * Corresponding author Published: 14 August 2009 Received: 9 February 2009 Accepted: 14 August 2009 BMC Pediatrics 2009, 9:52 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-9-52 This article is available from: /1471-2431/9/52 © 2009 Abdelnour et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: After the introduction of the seve