title: [Biological characteristics of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains isolated from children with pneumococcal diseases].
abstract: The biological properties of 97 S. pneumoniae strains isolated from 92 children with purulent meningitides, meningoencephalitides, pneumonia and otitis, hospitalized at the Leningrad Research Institute of Childhood Infections, were studied. The data obtained in this investigation were indicative of the formation of atypical forms of pneumococci (R-forms, unbalanced growth forms and L-forms) in all clinical forms of pneumococcal infection in children. In purulent meningitides and meningoencephalitides serovars 1 and 6, in pneumonia serovars 1, 3 and 6 and in otitis serovars 6 and 19 played the leading role. The determination of sensitivity to antibiotics showed that the forms under study retained high sensitivity to a number of antibiotics. The appearance of strains resistant to benzylopenicillin was registered. (10%). The isolated strains either possessed low virulence or were avirulent in bioassay on white mice.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Kvetnaia
authors.forename: Iu V
authors.initials: IuV
authors.lastname: Chistiakova
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Abramova
authors.forename: M O
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Volkova
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008586:Meningitis, Pneumococcal / Q000382:microbiology; D008590:Meningoencephalitis / Q000382:microbiology; D051379:Mice; D010031:Otitis / Q000382:microbiology; D010403:Penicillin Resistance; D011018:Pneumonia, Pneumococcal / Q000382:microbiology; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000472:pathogenicity
vernacular_title: Biologicheskaia kharakteristika shtammov Streptoccus pneumoniae, bydellennykh pri pnevmokokkovykh zabolevanniiakh u deteĭ.