Marked Differences in Pneumococcal Carriage and Resistance Patterns between Day Care Centers Located within a Small Area
Open Access
- 1 November 1999
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 29 (5), 1274-1280
- https://doi.org/10.1086/313465
Abstract
Carriage rates of Streptococcus pneumoniae and their antibiotic resistance, capsular types, and genetic patterns were studied among 264 children aged 12–35 months attending 8 day care centers located within a 2.5-mile radius in the same city. Nasopharyngeal cultures were obtained within a 2-month interval from all 264 children. Significant differences in each of the studied characteristics were found between day care centers, and each day care center had a unique pattern of the carried pneumococci. Our findings show that day care centers are independent microenvironments and emphasize their role in the transmission and augmentation of antibiotic-resistant S. pneumoniae in the community.This publication has 33 references indexed in Scilit:
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