The prevalence of group A streptococcal throat carriage in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
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1996-06Author
Dawson, KP
Ameen, AS
Nsanze, H
Bin-Othman, S
Mustafa, N
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The aim of this study was to establish the carrier rate of group A beta haemolytic streptococci in school children in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. One thousand and two randomly selected school children aged 5-7 years had their throats swabbed twice for both culture and direct antigen detection of group A streptococci. One hundred and fourteen children (11.3%) had both a positive antigen and culture test, while 216 (21.6%) had antigen-positive tests only and 16 (1.5%) had a positive culture only. Thus, the combination of culture and antigen detection revealed a carrier rate of 35.4% in the children examined. We conclude that in an affluent but isolated desert area on the Tropic of Cancer, group A streptococcal carriage rate is high. Antigen detection is superior to culture techniques in asymptomatic carrier studies.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8790675http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/31010
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Ann Trop Paediatr. 1996 Jun;16(2):123-7.Publisher
University of Nairobi. Department of Medicine
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- Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) [10377]