Abdul Rehman, Atta Ullah Mazhar, Sardar Alam Sarwar, Hafiz Hameed Ullah.
Acute Respiratory Infections bacteriology and antimicrobial sensitivity.
Pak Paed J Jan ;20(2):71-6.

A throat swab and blood were cultured from 500 children with Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI). Main microorganisms responsible for ARI were H Influenza and pneumococci. Others were staphylococcus aureus, klebsiella and streptococcus pyogenes. The haemophilus strains were highly sensitive to chloramphenicol, ampicillin and various cephalosporins (90-100%) while sensitivity to contrimoxazole, erythromycin, penicillin and gentamycin was 57%, 23.8%, 14.3% and 4.7% respec-tively. Penumococci, streptococci and staphylococci were sensitive to cephlosporin, chloramphenicol and erythromycin. Ampicillin and pencillin G were found to be effective against pneumococci and streptococci but not so against staphylococci. Gentamicin was found to be effective against staphylococci (75%) although it was not effective against pneumococci and streptococci.

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