Current bacteriology of chronic otitis media with effusion: High rate of nosocomial infection and decreased antibiotic sensitivity

Journal of Infection

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 308-316

  Jung, Hoon ^a   Lee, Sun Kyu ^a   Cha, Sung Ho ^a   Byun, Jae Yong ^a   Park, Moon Suh ^a   Yeo, Seung Geun ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antibiotics sensitivity; Otitis media with effusion; Posttympanostomy tube otorrhea

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CHRONIC SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE OTORRHEA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSEUDOMONAS; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOMONAS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 70449707637     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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