English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Zendy Plus

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Zendy Tools

Zendy Open

Objective: To study the prevalence of group A beta haemolytic streptococcal (GABHS) infection among children aged between 5 to 15 years suffering from acute tonsillopharyngitis and its antibiogram. Research Design And Methods: This was a crossectional prospective study done over two years, by procuring data from the total 123 patient records of OPD patients. The clinical settings including history, examination and the throat swab cultures with anti-microbial sensitivity testing performed under standard conditions. Results: In this study, Streptococcus pyogenes was isolated in 21 patients out of the total 123 patients studied (17.1%), out of which 14(11.4%) were isolated from the age group between 11-15 years and only 7(5.7%) in the age group between 5-10 years. Males (10.6%) predominated in comparision to females (6.5%) with male female ratio of 1.6:1 and all the isolates were 100% sensitive to cefaclor, penicillin-G and ampicillin followed by 38.1% resistance to erythromycin, 28.6% to azithromycin and 33.3% to tetracycline respectively. Conclusion: The current study showed 17.1% prevalence of GABHS in the study population suffering from acute tonsillopharyngitis and also showed significant amount of resistance against commonly used antibiotics which were earlier sensitive probably due to injudicious use of antibiotics without undergoing routine culture and sensitivity.

Prevalance of Streptococcus pyogenes infection in children aged between 5 to 15 years with acute tonsillopharyngitis and its antibiogram