Chronic suppurative otitis media: microbial profile in the rural sindh
Pakistan Journal of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. 1998; 14 (3): 57-8
in English
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| ID: emr-119335
ABSTRACT
In this study the tubo-tympanic variety has affected the pre-school and school going children although there was no bacteriologically significant difference in different age groups. Different anaerobe isolates include Bacteroides species [17.82%], Bacteroides melaninogenicus [11.60%] and Bacterioldes fragilis [06.22%] and anaerobic gram-positive cocci [07.56%], Peptostreptococcus [06.67%], Peptococcus [0.89%], while in mixed infections the Pseudomonas species was the most common isolate [27.78%], Proteus mirabilis [12.00%], Proteus vulgaris [0.89%], followed by aerobic gram-positive Staphylococci [10.22%] and Diphtheroids [12.00%]
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Index:
IMEMR (Eastern Mediterranean)
Main subject:
Rural Population
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Chronic Disease
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Pak. J. Otolaryngol.-Head Neck Surg.
Year:
1998
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