Isolation of Alloiococcus otitidis from Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children with chronic otitis media with effusion

Title: Isolation of Alloiococcus otitidis from Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian children with chronic otitis media with effusion
Creator: Ashhurst-Smith, Christopher; Hall, Sharron T.; Walker, Paul; Stuart, John; Hansbro, Philip M.
Relation: Pathogens and Disease Vol. 51, Issue 1, p. 163-170
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-695X.2007.00297.x
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2007
Description: During the last decade Alloiococcus otitidis has been identified in specimens from patients with chronic otitis media with effusion. Whereas most of those studies employed molecular techniques, we used minor modifications of conventional microbiological methods to isolate and identify A. otitidis in samples obtained from 20/50 (40%) children referred for myringotomy. Alloiococcus otitidis was isolated from 10/22 (45%) Indigenous and 10/28 (36%) non-Indigenous children. This is the first report of isolation of A. otitidis from Australian children with chronic otitis media. All isolates were sensitive to penicillin, but 14/20 (70%) of the isolates were resistant or partially resistant to erythromycin as assessed by the E-test.
Subject: chronic otitis media; <i>Alloiococcus otitidis</i>; indigenous children
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1310909
Identifier: uon:22115
Identifier: ISSN:2049-632X
Language: eng
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