Prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in respiratory samples from patients with tracheostomy in a long-term-care facility

Amos Adler; Debby Ben-David; Mitchell J. Schwaber; Samira Masarwa; David Schwartz; Nurith Porat; Tali Kotlovsky; Maya Shklyar; Nikolay Polivkin; Irina Weinberg; Avraham Lazary; Nissim Ohana; Ron Dagan

doi:10.1128/JCM.00763-12

Prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in respiratory samples from patients with tracheostomy in a long-term-care facility

Amos Adler
, Debby Ben-David
, Mitchell J. Schwaber
, Samira Masarwa
, David Schwartz
, Nurith Porat
, Tali Kotlovsky
, Maya Shklyar
, Nikolay Polivkin
, Irina Weinberg
, Avraham Lazary
, Nissim Ohana
, Ron Dagan

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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).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3368-3370
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Volume	50
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00763-12
State	Published - 1 Oct 2012

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Adler, A., Ben-David, D., Schwaber, M. J., Masarwa, S., Schwartz, D., Porat, N., Kotlovsky, T., Shklyar, M., Polivkin, N., Weinberg, I., Lazary, A., Ohana, N., & Dagan, R. (2012). Prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in respiratory samples from patients with tracheostomy in a long-term-care facility. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 50(10), 3368-3370. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00763-12

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Prevalence of Streptococcus pneumoniae in respiratory samples from patients with tracheostomy in a long-term-care facility

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