National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
To know the bacteriological profile of acute pharyngitis in special reference to serological grouping of streptococci in children of 5-15 years age. Study included 100 cases of acute pharyngitis in children between the age group of 5-15 years who attended pediatric outpatient department. Throat swabs were collected from all the 100 cases and subjected to rapid group A streptococcus antigen detection, gram stain, culture and antibiotic sensitivity testing. Isolated β hemolytic streptococcal colonies were grouped using pastorex strep latex kit. 80 cases were found bacterial culture positive among the 100 cases evaluated clinically. Among the 80 culture positive cases, 17 cases (21.25%) were due to β hemolytic streptococci. The grouping of β hemolytic streptococci showed 13 (76.47%) of them belonging to group A, 2 (11.76%) to group C and 2 (11.76%) to group G. The present study showed a 21.5% prevalence of group A β hemolytic streptococcus in the school going children of age 5-15 years suffering from acute pharyngitis. A significant amount of resistance (17%) was seen among some of the commonly used antibiotics like ampicillin, azithromycin, erythromycin and cefuroxime.
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