Nasopharyngeal carriage and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Streptococcus pneumoniae among children with pneumonia and healthy children in Padang, Indonesia.

ABSTRACT: Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the pathogenic bacteria causing invasive pneumococcal diseases such as pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis, which are commonly reported in children and adults. In this study, we investigated the nasopharyngeal carriage rates, serotype distribution, and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of S. pneumoniae among children with pneumonia and healthy children under 5 years old in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. Nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from 65 hospitalized children with pneumonia in a referral hospital and from 65 healthy children at two day-care centers from 2018 to 2019. S. pneumoniae was identified by conventional and molecular methods. Antibiotic susceptibility was performed with the disc diffusion method. Out of 130 childr

SUBMITTER: Yani FF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10323794 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature