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Upper respiratory tract infections children caused by viruses (URTI)
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DR.ABEER ABDULQADER, MR(S).BUSHRA ISMAIL IBRAHIM
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The study was aimed at determining bacterial agents of the upper respiratory tract and the susceptibility patterns
of isolates to antibiotics. In total, 250patients who attending Salah Aldin Hospital,gynecology and pediatric teaching
hospital and Samarra Hospital who complain of respiratory complication have been Screened to obtain the
prevalence of respiratory pathogens and to understand the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of isolates using
standard microbiological procedure and the disc-diffusion test. Of the 250 samples screened, 182 (72.8%) had
upper RTIs according to physical diagnosis of physicians that include (64.8%) had viral infection and (35.1) had
bacterial infection .cultures with the dominant bacterial pathogens being Haemophilusinfluenzae (40.6%), followed
by Streptococcus pneumoniae (28%), Klebsiellapneumoniae (17.1%), and Staphylococcus aureus (9%). Although
67% of the isolates were recovered from females compared to 32.9% from males, the difference was not
statistically significant (p>0.05). the pathogens were isolated from the age-group of 10-13 years was 22.5%, while
34.6% from the age-group of 1-3 years, and 12% from the age-group of 10-12 years. Antibiotic susceptibility testing
revealed that gentamicin (92%) and cefuroxime (88.4%) were the most effective antibiotics against the isolates.
Generally, susceptibility ranged from 0% to 92% depending on the antibiotic and the species of microorganism.
Penicillin had the highest (100%) resistance to all the isolates. Although multidrug-resistant strains of organisms
were identified, gentamicin and cefuroxime are recommended as the first-line antibiotics of choice against the
pathogens.
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Haemophilusinfluenzae, URTI
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2019.11.03.106
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