Significance of fungal flora in chronic suppurative otitis media

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 120-123

  Juyal, Deepak ^a   Negi, Vikrant ^a   Sharma, Munesh ^a   Adekhandi, Shamanth ^b   Prakash, Rajat ^c   Sharma, Neelam ^a  

^a Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Govt Medical Sciences and Research Institute   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Aspergillus; Candida; Chronic otitis media; Otomycosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; HYDROCORTISONE PLUS NEOMYCIN PLUS POLYMYXIN B; OFLOXACIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CHILD; CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; FEMALE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PENICILLIUM;

EID: 84919422422     PISSN: 17556783     EISSN: 09746005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1755-6783.146400     Document Type: Article

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