Blerta Kika Brati1, 2, Adela Alushi1, Albina Hasa1
1 University “Aldent”, Tirana, Albania;
2 Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania.
Aim: Infection with Streptococcus pyogenes based on the Lancfield division is classified as β Haemolytycbacters. They colonise the respiratory tract and the skin and causes a wide variety of diseases in humans including respiratory infections, dermal infections mediated toxin pathologies, and immunologic mediated pathologies. The study aims was at identification of the carrier subjects of S pyogenesbacter referring to the clinical and the respective laboratory examinations.
Methods: A randomly selected study was conducted in students of “Aldent University”. The age of subject included in our study was 18 until to 21 years old and mean age of the students was 19 ± 1.2 years. Tonsils swab were taking as material from of each student. Cultures in blood agar (5%) were identified through Gram/catalase. All samples were inoculated for 24 hours in the thermostat at temperature 37⁰C. The chi-squared statistical analysis was applying to evaluate the data.
Results: A total of 101 samples from healthy students were included in this study were the predominant sex was female 66.4% (67 students) compared to male 33.6% (34 students). Thirteen seven (36.6%) students were found to be Streptococcus pyogenes carriers and 63.4% are healthy. From S. pyogenes carriers 62.2% were female and 37.8 were male However, S. pyogenes carriers it was found to be more common among females (62.2%) than males (37, 8%) with no statistically significant difference between them (χ2 = 1.4, P = 0.5). We didn’t found statistically significant difference and for tonsils S. pyogenes carriage among different age groups.
Conclusions: Based on the results of our study the major part of the subjects don’t pay attention to the effective treatment for this bacterium and consequently they go to a more aggravated condition or they do not finish all the antibiotic therefore they remain carriers of this bacterium.
Keywords: streptococcus pyogenes, students, tonsils swab.