Aspects of nasopharyngeal microflora and middle ear function in children
Tarasova, G.D.; Strachunskiĭ, L.S.
Vestnik Otorinolaringologii 4: 30-32
2000
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4668 PMID: 11011576 Document Number: 515378
Exudative otitis media (EOM) was detected in 13 (14.8%) children out of 88 preschool children at audiological investigation. In their nasopharynx, these children carried pneumococci and hemophylic bacilli. The latter were identified 1.7 times more often in children with EOM than in those free of it. Both pathogens were encountered in EOM children 2.6 times more frequently. It is suggested that the above pathogens may support development and maintenance of EOM.