Recovery of potential pathogens and interfering bacteria in the nasopharynx of otitis media-prone children and their smoking and nonsmoking parents

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 509-512

  Brook, Itzhak ^a,b   Gober, Alan E ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PASSIVE SMOKING; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; ANTIBIOSIS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADULT; ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; PARENTS; SMOKING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 21244439588     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.131.6.509     Document Type: Article

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