Pneumococcosuria in Children - Journal of Clinical Microbiology

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, Jan. 1989, p. 99-101 0095-1137/89/010099-03$02.00/0 Copyright ©D 1989, American Society for Microbiology

Vol. 27, No. 1

Pneumococcosuria in Children MARK A. MILLER, BERNARD S. KAPLAN,t SIMON SORGER, AND KATHLEEN F. KNOWLES* Departments of Microbiology and Nephrology, Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3H 1P3 Received 2 August 1988/Accepted 13 October 1988 Streptococcus pneumoniae was present, in pure or mixed culture, in 43 (0.08%) of 53,499 urine cultures submitted from a pediatric population over a 4-year period. Data were analyzed from 28 children, from whom 78% of these positive cultures originated. Ninety-six percent of the children were female, and the median age was 3 years (range, 0.4 to 17 years). Only five children had S. pneumoniae as the sole organism cultured from the urine, and all five had only a single urine culture. Urine from the other 23 children contained other organisms as well. Small numbers of pneumococci were found in most urines: 74% contained