Staphylococcus associated acute throat infection among children presented to a tertiary care hospital

Abstract

Background: Staphylococcus infection remains one of the most common bacterial infections that cause high rate of morbidity and mortality in children and adults. This study was aimed to find the prevalent age group and type of Staphylococcus strain among the children presented with sore throat to a tertiary care hospital.Methods: A retrospective study was done by analyzing the medical records of children (less than 10 years of age) who presented to the outpatient Paediatric department with sore throat and confirmed diagnosis of Staphylococcus. Number of coagulase negative Staphylococcus (CoNS), Staphylococcus aureus (SA), methicilline resistant (MR) and methicilline sensitive (MS) strains was analyzed in various age groups and analyzed statistically.Results: Total 129 cases of Staphylococcus infected cases were found during the period of this study. The male to female ratio was 1.86 with high rate of prevalence found among the children of age 1-3 years (39.5%) (p= 0.0031). The CoNS was found in 65/129 (50.38%) cases and all were MSSA. No MRSA infection was found during the study period. Among the total cases, 122/129 (94.57%) cases were infected with MS strains. The MR strain was found in 7/129 cases (5.4%) which was mainly in neonates. The rate of infection was less in older children (7-10-year age).Conclusions: The prevalence of Staphylococcus associated throat infection was high among the children of 1-3-year age with male dominance. The MR strain was found only 5.4% of cases and no MRSA found in this study.

Study of Fosfomycin Sensitivity in Various Bacterial Isolates in Patients of Urinary Tract Infections Attending in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Kashmir Region, India

“…Our study was divided into 5 age groups (0-5), (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15), , (41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51)(52)(53)(54)(55)(56)(57)(58)(59)(60) (40) (2022) conducted a study in Jaipur (India) & reported UTIs to be present predominantly in females then males, (60.7%) UTI in females and (39.3%) UTIs in males. A similar study was conducted by Banerjee, et al, (32) (2017) West Bengal (India) in their study they also found that females more prone to UTI then in males, they found (73.33%) UTIs in females and (26.67%) UTIs in males.…”

“…The higher incidence rate of UTIs among females is attributed to the anatomical structure of urinary tract of females & sexual activity. Bhargava et al, (40) conducted a study in Jaipur (India) 2022 und found gram negative bacteria to predominantly cause UTIs as compared to gram positive bacteria, (67.2%) were gram negative and (10.8%) were gram positive bacteria. A similar study was conducted by Sabharwal et al, (41) New Delhi (2015) in their study they also found (82.9%) gram negative bacteria and (17%) gram positive bacteria.…”

Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) as a significant etiological factor of laryngological infections: a review

“…CoNS are generally considered nonpathogenic, and their presence in clinical material has been interpreted as contamination by normal microbiota present in the mucous membranes of the oral cavity and upper respiratory tracts. However, there are few reports on CoNS in cultures from throat infections, but these studies were mostly in children, and the role of CoNS as causative agents should be further investigated [122][123][124].…”