title: [Quantitative changes of bacterial flora from the oral cavity and throat in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia].
abstract: Quantitative investigations were carried on aerobic and anaerobic bacterial flora of oral cavity and throat in 44 children in the age of 5-10 years with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, intensively treated with cytostatics, and in 23 healthy children which served as a control group. Samples of saliva from leukemic children revealed significantly higher than in control group--presence of aerobic bacteria, particularly streptococci and enterococci. Material from throat was differing only in regard to staphylococci. Moreover, in children with leukemia, Gram-negative rods were present, which was not the case in the control group.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Mikrobiologii Lekarskiej AM w Lodzi
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Krzemiński
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Majda-Stanisławska
mesh_terms: D001420:Bacteria, Aerobic / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009055:Mouth / Q000382:microbiology*; D010614:Pharynx / Q000382:microbiology*; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000382:microbiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D012463:Saliva / Q000382:microbiology
vernacular_title: Zmiany ilościowe flory bakteryjnej jamy ustnej i gardła u dzieci z ostra białaczka limfoblastyczna.