TY - JOUR
T1 - Prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in respiratory samples from patients with tracheostomy in a long-term-care facility
AU - Adler, Amos
AU - Ben-David, Debby
AU - Schwaber, Mitchell J.
AU - Masarwa, Samira
AU - Schwartz, David
AU - Porat, Nurith
AU - Kotlovsky, Tali
AU - Shklyar, Maya
AU - Polivkin, Nikolay
AU - Weinberg, Irina
AU - Lazary, Avraham
AU - Ohana, Nissim
AU - Dagan, Ron
PY - 2012/10/1
Y1 - 2012/10/1
N2 - We aimed to study the prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in respiratory samples from institutionalized patients with chronic tracheostomy. A total of 264 pairs of nasopharyngeal and endotracheal cultures were collected. There was no difference in the proportion of positive cultures between children (21%) and adults (18%). However, the proportion of positive endotracheal cultures was higher than that of nasopharyngeal cultures in adults (18% versus 3%, respectively; P < 0.001) but not in children (17% in both sites).
AB - We aimed to study the prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in respiratory samples from institutionalized patients with chronic tracheostomy. A total of 264 pairs of nasopharyngeal and endotracheal cultures were collected. There was no difference in the proportion of positive cultures between children (21%) and adults (18%). However, the proportion of positive endotracheal cultures was higher than that of nasopharyngeal cultures in adults (18% versus 3%, respectively; P < 0.001) but not in children (17% in both sites).
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U2 - 10.1128/JCM.00763-12
DO - 10.1128/JCM.00763-12
M3 - Article
C2 - 22837316
AN - SCOPUS:84866460510
SN - 0095-1137
VL - 50
SP - 3368
EP - 3370
JO - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
IS - 10
ER -
