Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriers in asymptomatic children and clonal relatedness among isolates in Malatya, Turkey.
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.
Durmaz
Riza
R
Molecular Microbiology Section, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Inonu University, 44069 Malatya, Turkey. rdurmaz@inonu.edu.tr
Durmaz
Bengul
B
Bayraktar
Mehmet
M
Ozerol
Ibrahim Halil
IH
Kalcioglu
Mahmut Tayyar
MT
Aktas
Elif
E
Cizmeci
Zeynep
Z
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