Isolation of antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus pyogenes from the nasopharynx of newborn infants
Vol. 19 No. 1-2 (1959), ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Vol. 19 No. 1-2 (1959)

Isolation of antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus pyogenes from the nasopharynx of newborn infants

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
https://doi.org/10.53393/rial.1959.19.33327
Published 1959-01-04
Luís Scatena
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina, Ribeirão Preto, SP
Ariovaldo Costa
Instituto Adolfo Lutz, São Paulo, SP
Fernando Henrique Pinto
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Farmácia e Odontologia, Ribeirão Preto, SP
Octavio Baracchini
Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Farmácia e Odontologia, Ribeirão Preto, SP
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Scatena L, Costa A, Pinto FH, Baracchini O. Isolation of antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus pyogenes from the nasopharynx of newborn infants. Rev Inst Adolfo Lutz [Internet]. 1959 Jan. 4 [cited 2024 Jul. 3];19(1-2):69-74. Available from: https://periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br/RIAL/article/view/33327
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Abstract

Working with material collected from the nose and pharynx of fifty newborn babies (four days old), the authors isolated antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus pyogenes in 22 cases, 44% of the infants. All Staphylococci isolated were resistant to penicillin, and almost all were resistant to streptomycin, chlortetracycline, and oxytetracycline. The results showed that there were antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus pyogenes in the nursery of the Clinical Hospital of the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto. The authors suggest that the nursery can be a possible source of Staphylococci infections in which penicillin, streptomycin, chlortetracycline are not effective.

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