Throat Culture for Streptococcus pneumonia among healthy carrier in Al Majmaah city
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Streptococcus pneumoniae, is anaerobic non-spore forming gram positive bacteria with oval/lancet-shaped cocci, they are often arranged in pairs, known as a diplococcus, Culture grows on blood agar, where it forms round facultative colonies surrounded by α-hemolysis Footnote. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of S. Pneumoniae isolated from the throat of healthy carrier and study it's antimicrobial susceptibility to estimate the resistance pattern among the students of applied medical science in Al Majmaah university, girls department. This study was conducted in Medical applied science college in Al Majmaah University during October - November 2014. Informed consent was taken from each student in this study. Inclusion criteria of this study were students aged 17- 23 year, this criteria has been used depending on the ages of the students in medical laboratories department the college. A total of 72 healthy students between 19-23 years of age were sampled in October- November 2014 in Medical Applied science/ medical laboratories girls department of Al Majmaah university. in the present study the carriage rate of S. pneumoniae was found to be 57 (86 %) in the throat of healthy students, of the 57 isolates 29 (55.6%) showed intermediate resistance to pencillin and 14 (24.6%) were susceptible. The susceptibilitiy pattern of the 57S.pneumoniae isolated to other four antimicrobial agents was 14% for penicillin and the highest resistance was 43% for Tetracyclin. This study analyzed the prevalence and the susceptibility tests of S. pneumonia in the throat of healthy students 19-23 years, as it is uniformly susceptible for pneumococci, the studies like this are very important, especially for choosing empirical therapy, and it must be continue
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Heavin S. Hannan
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