Prevalence of group A streptococcal carriers in asymptomatic children and clonal relatedness among isolates in Malatya, Turkey

Durmaz, RDurmaz, BBayraktar, MOzerol, IHKalcioglu, MTAktas, ECizmeci, Z2024-08-042024-08-0420030095-11371098-660Xhttps://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.41.11.5285-5287.2003https://hdl.handle.net/11616/93657In our study, the prevalence of nasopharyngeal Streptococcus pyogenes was 130 (14.3%) of 909 healthy children. Isolates were found to be susceptible to all antibiotics tested. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and arbitrarily primed PCR revealed that 34 (32.4%) of the 105 isolates and 41 (40.6%) of the 101 isolates typed, respectively, were clonally indistinguishable.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessField Gel-ElectrophoresisPyogenesDeterminantsResistanceInfectionDiversityCarriageOutbreakPatternsStrainsPrevalence of group A streptococcal carriers in asymptomatic children and clonal relatedness among isolates in Malatya, TurkeyArticle4111528552871460518510.1128/JCM.41.11.5285-5287.20032-s2.0-0242593767Q1WOS:000186665500068Q1