%0 Journal Article %T Antimicrobial resistance and serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains causing childhood infection in Burkina Faso. %+ Unité de Formation et de Recherche en Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre (UFR/SVT) %+ Medical centre Saint Camille-Pietro ANNIGONI Biomolecular Research Centre %+ Microbiology Institute of CHUV %+ Institut Pasteur de Côte d'Ivoire %A Bere, Leonard C %A Simpore, Jacques %A Karou, Simplice D %A Zeba, Boukaré %A Bere, Augustin P %A Bannerman, Elizabeth %A Bille, Jacques %A Dosso, Mireille %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1028-8880 %J Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences %I Asian Network for Scientific Information (ANSINET) %V 12 %N 18 %P 1282-1286 %8 2009-09-15 %D 2009 %R 10.3923/pjbs.2009.1282.1286 %M 20384283 %Z Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/BacteriologyJournal articles %X In Burkina Faso, a Western African country, reports on pneumococci carriage, resistance patterns and serotypes are inconsistent. The present study was conducted in order to evaluate these parameters. Thus 860 nasopharyngeal swabs were collected from children attending vaccination centers for pneumococci isolation, identification and serotype determination. The susceptibility to 16 antibiotics was assayed as recommended by the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standard (NCCLS). The results revealed that the majority of children were of 2 to 24 months age and 73.4% of children were well vaccinated. A carriage rate of 50.6% was recoded among the children. The main serotypes were: 6 (22.22%); 23 (16.67%); 7 and 9 (3.70%); 4, 11, 14, 15, 20 and 24 (1.85%). Serotypesl9, 23, 6, 7 and 18 were linked to penicillin resistance. Globally, high resistance rates to: amikacin, tetracyclin, pefloxacin, cotrimoxazol and penicillins (resistance rates greater than 25%) were recorded; however the following antibiotics remained active on the strains: rifampicin, ceftriaxone, erythromycin, spectinomycin, chloramphenicol, vancomycin, lincomycin and ciprofloxacin. %G English %Z We are grateful to maternal and child health centre (SMI) of Accart-ville and Farakan employees for their assistance and support. We are deeply grateful to microbiological laboratory of Centre Muraz and ChUV for their technical assistance. %2 https://riip.hal.science/pasteur-00757775/document %2 https://riip.hal.science/pasteur-00757775/file/antimicrobial_resistance_and_serotype_dosso.pdf %L pasteur-00757775 %U https://riip.hal.science/pasteur-00757775 %~ RIIP %~ RIIP_COTEDIVOIRE