Chronic suppurative otitis media: microbial profile in the rural sindh

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%]