A retrospective evaluation of microbiology of acute otitis media complicated by spontaneous otorrhea in children living in Milan, Italy

Infection

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 629-635

  Marchisio, P ^a   Bianchini, S ^a   Baggi, E ^a   Fattizzo, M ^a   Galeone, C ^b,c   Torretta, S ^c   Principi, N ^a   Esposito, S ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute otitis media; Children; Middle ear fluid; Otorrhea; Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine; Spontaneous tympanic membrane perforation

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BODILY SECRETIONS; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EAR INFECTION; EARDRUM PERFORATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAR FLUID; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; OTORRHEA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PERFORATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; VACCINATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ITALY; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84878874378     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-012-0371-1     Document Type: Article

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