Korean Journal of Microbiology (미생물학회지)

The Microbiological Society of Korea (한국미생물학회)
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Studies on the Group A Hemolytic Streptococci in School Children : The Occurrence and Susceptibility to Antobiotics

우리나라 일부 도시 학동들의 A군 연쇄구균의 분포상태 및 약제감수성에 관한 연구

  • Koh, Choon, Myung (Won-Ju Campus Yonsei University College of Medicine) ;
  • Lew, Joon (Dept. of Microbiology Yonsei University College of Medicine)
  • 고춘명 (연세대학교 의과대학 원주분교) ;
  • 유준 (연세대학교 미생물학교실)
  • Published : 1980.06.01
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Abstract

this paper presents the findings of a study in which throat cultures was ontained from all grade of primary school surrounding Seoul area. The number and percentages of children with positive throat cultures of streptococci were 181 cases (9.4%) among 1914 cases. Group A streptococci composed 4.3% (83 cases) of betahemolytic streptococci recovered. A total of 181 strains of group A streptococci were tested for susceptibility to 21 anibiotics in vitro. The strains were almost equally sensitive to most of the individual antibiotics : all of the group A strains were uniformly susceptible to bacitracin ; 93.6% to ampicillin ; 82.3% to erythromycin. The susceptibility to colymycin to colymycin and kanamycin were not found.

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