We evaluated the Binax NOW Streptococcus pneumoniae urinary antigen assay by testing 210 healthy children aged 2--60 months living in urban slums of Quito, Ecuador. Healthy children with nasopharyngeal carriage of S. pneumoniae were significantly more likely to have positive urinary antigen test results than were children who were not carriers (30 of 138 vs. 3 of 71 children; chi2=10.8; P<.001)...

Objective: To analyse, estimate the consequence and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Streptococcus Pneumoniae isolates various clinical specimens from different places. Materials and Methods: 105 clinical strains were recovered from different hospital in thanjavur, tamilnadu state at India from January 2014 to Jun 2014. All the isolates of streptococcus pneumonia were obtained from fresh ma...

Pneumonia can be complicated by an empyema, progressing from an exudative effusion, to a fibrinopurulent stage with loculations, and then organized with a thick fibrinous peel. The predominant causative organisms are Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphyloccocus aureus (including methicillin-resistant S aureus) and Streptococcus pyogenes. Recently, an increased incidence of paediatric complicated pn...

1. Immunization of man with 0.03 to 0.06 mg. of each of the capsular polysaccharides of pneumococcus types I, II, V, and VII, given in a single subcutaneous injection, has been shown to be effective in preventing pneumonia caused by these types but not that due to heterologous types. 2. Immunity appears within a period of 2 weeks following injection of the polysaccharides. Its duration was not ...

Between January 1983 and June 1986, 62 cases of meningitis were seen in the Duchess of Kent Hospital, Sandakan, Sabah. The commonest organism were H. influenza (14.5%) Strep Pneumoniae (12.9%) tuberculosis (12.9%) L monocytogenes (12.9%) and N. meningitidis (11.3%). There was a strong association between meningitis and the following: Children under one year of age, from a low socioeconomic grou...

Forty-five isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae were inoculated on Dorset egg and supplemented Columbia agar base media, incubated overnight at 37 degrees C, and then kept at room temperature (RT; 21 degrees C) or 4 degrees C. Long-term viability was best at RT for both media, with all isolates remaining viable on Dorset egg medium for 44 days; viability was 90 and 57% on Columbia agar base med...