With such a large child
population, high pneumococcal carriage rates can result
in a very high incidence of pneumococcal infections.
As there are no data on the prevalence of drug-resistant
pneumococci (DRP) in Oman, we carried out this
survey in order to determine the nasopharyngeal
carriage rate of Streptococcus pneumoniae among children
and the prevalence of DRP in this country.