Predominant Bacterial and Viral Otopathogens Identified Within the Respiratory Tract and Middle Ear of Urban Australian Children Experiencing Otitis Media Are Diversely Distributed.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Otitis media (OM) is one of the most common infections in young children, arising from bacterial and/or viral infection of the middle ear. Globally, Streptococcus pneumoniae and non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) are the predominant bacterial otopathogens. Importantly, common upper respiratory viruses are increasingly recognized contributors to the polymicrobial pathogenesis of OM. This study aimed to identify predominant bacteria and viruses in the nasopharynx, adenoids and middle ears of peri-urban/urban South-East Queensland Australian children, with and without clinical history of chronic otitis media with effusion (COME) and/or recurrent acute otitis media (RAOM).

Methods

Sixty children, 43 diagnosed with OM and 17 controls with no clini

SUBMITTER: Ngo CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8963760 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature