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KMID : 0384119930130030395
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Korean Journal of Clinical Pathology
1993 Volume.13 No. 3 p.395 ~ p.402
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Isolation of Beta-Hemolytic Streptococci from the Throat of Elementary School Children in Chungnam Province
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Abstract
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the clinical significance of beta-hemolytic streptococci(BHS) isolated from the throat of healthy children is not well known. The isolation rate of BHS of healthy children will help the clinicians take into consideration of carriers in the
treatment of
pharyngitis patients. Nowadays patients with the sequelae of group A BHS infection, anmely rheumatic fever (RF) and acute glomerulonephritis(AGN), are not frequently encountered in the pediatric office or in the hospital in this country. However,
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meaning of carriage of BHS and its role among school age children in the classroom should be well studied, considering that these sequelae are occurring among patients without symptoms on with mild symptoms, and several epidemics of RF on AGN had
developed in USA and other developed countries in the mid-1980s Tho isolation rte of BHS was evaluated on 980 children of an elementary school located in Chungnam Province in March, 1993. The isolation rate of BHS was 19.1%(187 strains). The
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rate of group A was 14.4%(141 strains), and non-group A 4.7%(46 strains) respectively. the children of the 4th grade showed the highest isolation rate(33.0%) of BHS. Geographic comparison of culture positivity and the isolation rate with those of
Kangwon Province is discussed. In conclusion, the isolation rate of BHS among the Korean children is not low.
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