title: Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriers in asymptomatic children and clonal relatedness among isolates in Malatya, Turkey.
abstract: In our study, the prevalence of nasopharyngeal Streptococcus pyogenes was 130 (14.3%) of 909 healthy children. Isolates were found to be susceptible to all antibiotics tested. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and arbitrarily primed PCR revealed that 34 (32.4%) of the 105 isolates and 41 (40.6%) of the 101 isolates typed, respectively, were clonally indistinguishable.
authors: Molecular Microbiology Section, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Inonu University, 44069 Malatya, Turkey. rdurmaz@inonu.edu.tr
authors: Riza
authors: R
authors: Durmaz
authors: Bengul
authors: B
authors: Durmaz
authors: Mehmet
authors: M
authors: Bayraktar
authors: Ibrahim Halil
authors: IH
authors: Ozerol
authors: Mahmut Tayyar
authors: MT
authors: Kalcioglu
authors: Elif
authors: E
authors: Aktas
authors: Zeynep
authors: Z
authors: Cizmeci
mesh_terms: D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D006801:Humans; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D009305:Nasopharynx / Q000382:microbiology; D019372:Orphanages; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D015995:Prevalence; D012574:Schools; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013297:Streptococcus pyogenes / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology