Epidemiology of rheumatic fever

Diehl, Antoni M.; Lade, Roswith I.; Hamilton, Tom R.

doi:10.1016/0002-9149(58)90112-7

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“…In the study of Siegal et al (21) group A was found in 47.7%; for Mocfet et al (13), it was 50%; and for Koshi et al (9), 31.2%. Group C and G streptococci have been incriminated in upper respiratory tract infections (5,7,10,11,17,22,26). Koshi et al (9) found group C and G in 22.9% and 28.4% of their isolates respectively.…”

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Identification of β‐Hemolytic Streptococci Isolated from Hospitalized Children in Baghdad

Al-Hindawi

Al-Shibib

1979

Microbiology and Immunology

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Two hundred and twenty four hospitalized children in Baghdad aged between 1 month and 10 years were examined for Streptococcal infections. Thirty‐four percent of the throat and saliva specimens were positive for β‐hemolytic streptococci. Males were more susceptible to infection with group A streptococci than females. Streptococcus of group A was isolated from 39.5% of the positive cases while group G was 47.4%. The etiological significance of the latter group in tonsillitis and otitis media is to be further investigated. Ninety six percent of the isolated streptococci were T typable and 13.3% of the strains were M typable. A high frequency of type T‐11 was found in streptococcal infections. T type 3875 was found to be a new provisional type. All isolates were M untypable, and anti‐opacity factor negative except for two isolates of T type 4 which were positive in both typings.

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