A rat model of otitis media with effusion caused by eustachian tube obstruction with and without Streptococcus pneumoniae infection: Methods and course

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 490-498

  Piltcher, Otavio B ^a,b   Swarts, J Douglas ^a,b   Magnuson, Karin ^a,b   Alper, Cuneyt M ^a,b   Doyle, William J ^a,b   Hebda, Patricia A ^a,b  

^a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ^*

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE; AUDITORY TUBE DYSFUNCTION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EARDRUM; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OTORRHEA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ANIMALS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0036561283     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2002.124935     Document Type: Article

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