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  • Title: [Microbial colonization of the upper respiratory tracts of day care children in relation to acute morbidity episodes].
    Author: Ritter E, Grimmer I, Adamczyk G, Schmidt G.
    Journal: Z Gesamte Hyg; 1990 Nov; 36(11):617-20. PubMed ID: 2085047.
    Abstract:
    The upper respiratory tracts of 20 children attending a crèche were studied for bacteria up to the 128th day of crèche attendance. To this end nose and throat swabs as well as double blood withdrawals were to determine antibodies against various respiratory viruses. The germ spectrum thus obtained was correlated with the acute pathological processes occurring during the period of investigation. In addition to the normal flora, the nasopharynx of infection-stable children was, with one exception, only populated with gram-positive pathopotent bacteria during the first four months of crèche attendance. In infection-labile children, however, gram-negative pathopotent bacteria, blastomycetes of the Candida group as well as Mycoplasma, virus and mixed infections were discovered apart from gram-positive bacteria. This broad germ spectrum should be taken into wider consideration in the chemotherapy of respiratory infections.
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