Biofilm presence in humans with chronic suppurative otitis media

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 567-571

  Lee, Michael Robert ^a   Pawlowski, Karen Sue ^a   Luong, Amber ^b   Furze, Alexis Dorian ^a   Roland, Peter Sargent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOFILM; CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE EAR MUCOSA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STAINING; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TYMPANOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOFILMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE;

EID: 70350514688     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2009.08.010     Document Type: Article

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