Aerobic and anaerobic bacteriology of concurrent chronic otitis media with effusion and chronic sinusitis in children

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 174-176

  Brook, Itzhak ^a,b,c   Yocum, Paula ^b   Shah, Kiran ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PREVOTELLA; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPERINFECTION; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

EID: 0033954820     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.126.2.174     Document Type: Article

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