Bacterial flora in chronic suppurative otitis media in Benghazi

A study of bacterial flora in one hundred cases of Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media [CSOM] was carried out at the 7th April Teaching Hospital, in Benghazi. This study included culture of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, and culture for fungi in all cases. The commonest pathogens identified were Pseudomonas sp. [26%], Staphylococci [25%] and Proteus sp. [23%]. Fungi were isolated in 9% of cases. No growth was seen in 15% of the specimens cultured. No anaerobic organisms were cultred. No resistant strains were identified by an antibiogram study