Identification of β-Hemolytic Streptococci Isolated from Hospitalized Children in Baghdad
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- AL-HINDAWI Nassir
- Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, University of Baghdad
Abstract
Two hundred and twenty four hospitalized children in Baghdad aged between 1 month and 10 years were examined for Streptococcal infections. Thirty four percent of the throat and saliva specimens were positive for β-hemolytic streptococci. Males were more susceptible to infection with group A streptococci than females. Streptococcus of group A was isolated from 39.5% of the positive cases while group G was 47.4%. The etiological significance of the latter group in tonsillitis and otitis media is to be further investigated. Ninety six percent of the isolated streptococci were T typable and 13.3% of the strains were M typable. A high frequency of type T-11 was found in streptococcal infections. T type 3875 was found to be a new provisional type. All isolates were M untypable, and antiopacity factor negative except for two isolates of T type 4 which were positive in both typings.
Journal
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- Japanese Journal of Microbiology
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Japanese Journal of Microbiology 23 (11), 1049-1054, 1979
Center For Academic Publications Japan
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1573105977918684928
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- NII Article ID
- 130003482775
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- ISSN
- 03855600
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- CiNii Articles