@article{Taha_Ali_2019, title={Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from the nasal carriage and its antibiotic susceptibility profiles in children}, volume={23}, url={https://zjms.hmu.edu.krd/index.php/zjms/article/view/689}, DOI={10.15218/zjms.2019.039}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background and objective: </strong>The prevalence of <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae</em> and resistance to antibiotics has become a public health problem in different countries of the world. This study aimed to investigate the occurrence of <em>Streptococcus </em><em>pneumoniae </em>nasal carriage among children, and their antibiotics susceptibility profiles.</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>A nasal swab was obtained from 1092 healthy children aged from 6 to13 years in Erbil Parks, Kurdistan region, Iraq. The swabs were cultured on appropriate culture media to isolate <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae </em>and to examine their susceptibility to antibiotics. The antibiotic susceptibility testing was performed using the standard disk-diffusion method.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong><em>Streptococcus pneumoniae </em>was isolated from 224 (20.51%) of the specimens; 57.59%, and 56.25% of isolates were resistant to penicillin and ampicillin, respectively, while 3.57% and 4.46% were resistant to clarithromycin and moxifloxacin, respectively. None of the isolates had resistant to vancomycin.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There is a high prevalence of penicillin and another β-lactam drug resistance among isolates of <em>Streptococcus pneumoniae </em>from the nasal carriage of children in our region.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Zanco Journal of Medical Sciences (Zanco J Med Sci)}, author={Taha, Aza Bahadeen and Ali, Katan Sabir}, year={2019}, month={Dec.}, pages={315–321} }