TY - JOUR ID - TI - Isolation and Identification of Novel Streptococcus pluranimalium Isolated from Children with Upper Respiratory Infections in Mosul Hospitals, Iraq AU - Sura Mahmood AU - Hasan Faisal Hussein Kahya PY - 2022 VL - 63 IS - 9 SP - 3671 EP - 3678 JO - Iraqi Journal of Science المجلة العراقية للعلوم SN - 00672904 23121637 AB - Streptococcus pluranimalium was first isolated in 1999. Recently, several casereports have been published that have revealed that S. pluranimalium can infecthumans as well. The pathogenicity and pathophysiology of this pathogen is poorlystudied and its characteristics are not well known. In this study, S. pluranimaliumwas first isolated and then identified from infants and children who suffered fromupper respiratory infections. 90 samples were collected from nasopharyngeal cavity.Among them, 83 Streptococcus spp. isolates were identified. 3 out of which werebiochemically and molecularly identified as S. pluranimalium. 16S rRNAsequencing based identification revealed that all isolates showed a very closeidentity match (92%) with subjected S. pluranimalium when blasted with gene bankdatabase. Furthermore, the antibiotic susceptibility of S. pluranimalium towards tenantibiotics was conducted using Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion test. The resultsrevealed that S. pluranimalium was 100% susceptible to penicillin, levofloxacin, andofloxacin. However, other antibiotics showed diverse effects on S. pluranimalium.

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