Incidence and Pathogenicity of Arcanobacterium haemolyticum During a 2-Year Study in Ottawa
| Autor: | Louise A. Fuite, Andrew M. Mackenzie, Noni E. MacDonald, Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, James C King, Upton Allen, Francis Chan |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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Male Microbiology (medical) medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Fever Urticaria Erythromycin Microbial Sensitivity Tests Penicillins Arcanobacterium haemolyticum Age Distribution Throat Internal medicine medicine Humans Child Pathogen Ontario biology business.industry Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Infant Pharyngitis biology.organism_classification Rash Anti-Bacterial Agents Penicillin Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure El Niño Child Preschool Actinomycetaceae Immunology Pharynx Female medicine.symptom business Actinomycetales Infections medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Infectious Diseases. 21:177-181 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6591 1058-4838 |
| Popis: | Arcanobacterium haemolyticum has been described as a rare cause of systemic invasive disease and is occasionally isolated from throat swabs. We describe a 2-year study of the incidence and clinical features of A. haemolyticus infection in a pediatric and adolescent population. A total of 11,620 throat swabs were examined for A. haemolyticum with use of a locally developed selective medium. Controls (2,241) were healthy students who were recruited from a separate study. A. haemolyticum was isolated from 42 patients, with the maximum incidence in the 15 to 18-year-old age group ; in this subset the incidence was 2.5%. There were no isolates of A. haemolyticum found in the healthy controls, and the difference in incidence between patients and controls in the 15 to 18-year-old age group was highly significant (P |
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