Major Bacteria of Community-Acquired Respiratory Tract Infections in Turkey

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  • Ozyilmaz Ezgi
    Ataturk Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Central Education and Research Hospital, Turkey
  • Akan Ozay Arikan
    Central Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Turkey
  • Gulhan Meral
    Ataturk Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Central Education and Research Hospital, Turkey
  • Ahmed Kamruddin
    Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Bilkent University, Turkey, Division of Molecular Epidemiology, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
  • Nagatake Tsuyoshi
    Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Japan

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<p>To determine the bacterial etiology of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in Turkey, quantitative cultures of sputum were carried out. The major pathogens for LTRIs were found to be Haemophilus influenzae, followed by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Moraxella catarrhalis. Only 6.1% of the H. inlfuenzae and all strains of M. catarrhalis were β-lactamase producers. An E-test showed that 31.2% of the S. pneumoniae strains had an intermediate resistance to penicillin, and the remaining strains were susceptible; no fully resistant strains were detected.</p>

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