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Evaluation of the Recovery of Staph, aur. pyogenes from the Faeces of Children.
Author(s) -
LAURELL G.,
PHILIPSON L.,
GYLLENSWlRD A.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1959.tb05406.x
Subject(s) - feces , enteritis , neomycin , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , tetracycline , antibiotics , phage typing , typing , gastroenterology , biology
Summary A series of children with and without diarrhoea from whose faeces Staph, aur. pyogenes had been recovered on some occasion was studied. Samples were taken before and after treatment with antibiotics of the tetracycline type, and, in untreated cases, at regular intervals during their stay in hospital. Phage‐typing of the staphylococci was performed to some extent. The results indicate that most children with staphylococci in the faeces had on admission a sensitive strain, which after treatment was replaced by a resistant strain the phage‐pattern of which differed from that of the original strain in some cases. In some of the children not treated, the strains of staphylococci also changed after a certain period in hospital. Representative cases to illustrate these phenomena are described. Further, a minor epidemic of enteritis, probably staphylococcal in origin, is described, and also a case of severe enteritis, which may have been caused by staphylococci after suppression of the gastro‐intestinal flora by neomycin.