Bacteriological study of atrophic rhinitis

In this work, swabs from the nasal vestibules and the middle meatus were obtained, from 20 patients with primary and secondary atrophic rhinitis [10 cases each] in addition to 10 normal control subjects, and were studied for the aerobic and anaerobic bacterial flora. Our results indicate the difference between the bacterial flora of the nasal vestibules and middle meatus in the normal control subjects when compared with either the primary cases of atrophic rhinitis or the secondary ones. Moreover, the bacterial flora were also different in the latter two cases when compared with each other