Pacôme Monemo, Nadia Demba, Fidèle S Touré, Adjartou Traoré, Christelle Avi, Micheline A N'Guessan, Juste O Tadet, Arthur R Gobey, Augustin E Anoh, Abdoulaye Diarrassouba, Marie N Tuo, Amadou Cissé, Jasmina Saric, Jürg Utzinger, Honoré Tia, Judith Kouassi-N'Djeundo, Sören L Becker, Chantal Akoua-Koffi
The pharynx of the child may serve as a reservoir of pathogenic bacteria, including beta-haemolytic group A streptococci (GAS), which can give rise to upper airway infections and post-streptococcal diseases. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of beta-haemolytic Streptococcus spp. in pharyngeal samples stemming from children aged 3-14 years in Bouaké, central Côte d'Ivoire. Oropharyngeal throat swabs for microbiological culture and venous blood samples to determine the seroprevalence of antistreptolysin O antibodies (ASO) were obtained from 400 children in March 2017...
November 27, 2020: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease