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Reliability of conventional ear swabs in tubotympanic CSOM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

K. G. S. Raju ,
P. Unnykrishnan ,
R. C. Nayar ,
S. Dutt  and
R. Macaden
K. G. S. Raju
Affiliation:
From Department of ENT and Microbiology, St.John' Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, India.
P. Unnykrishnan
Affiliation:
From Department of ENT and Microbiology, St.John' Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, India.
R. C. Nayar*
Affiliation:
From Department of ENT and Microbiology, St.John' Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, India.
S. Dutt
Affiliation:
From Department of ENT and Microbiology, St.John' Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, India.
R. Macaden
Affiliation:
From Department of ENT and Microbiology, St.John' Medical College and Hospital, Bangalore, India.
*
Dr Ravi C. Nayar, Assistant Professor of ENT, St John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore—560 034, India.
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Abstract

Conventional external ear swab cultures were compared with cultures obtained from the middle ear, in 25 cases of tubotympanic type (‘safe’), chronic suppurative otitis media. These cultures were identical in 22 of the 25 cases.

Anaerobic organisms were isolated in only one case. Mixed infections of both gram-positive and gramnegative organisms were seen in nine cases (36 per cent).

Staphylococcus aureus was the commonest single agent isolated (16 cases). Multidrug resistance was seen in 12 of these isolates.

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 104 , Issue 6 , June 1990 , pp. 460 - 462
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1990

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