Current concepts in the pathogenesis and treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1103-1116

  Mittal, Rahul ^a   Lisi, Christopher V ^a   Gerring, Robert ^a   Mittal, Jeenu ^a   Mathee, Kalai ^b   Narasimhan, Giri ^c   Azad, Rajeev K ^d   Yao, Qi ^a   Grati, M’Hamed ^a   Yan, Denise ^a   Eshraghi, Adrien A ^a   Angeli, Simon I ^a   Telischi, Fred F ^a   Liu, Xue Zhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; COCHLEA; COCHLEA FENESTRA; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; EAR INFECTION; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INCIDENCE; OTOTOXICITY; PATHOGENESIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RECURRENT INFECTION; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84944714685     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.000155     Document Type: Review

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