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Serous otitis media (S.O.M.). A bacteriological study of the ear canal and the middle ear.

A bacteriological study of the middle-ear effusions and the ear canals in children with chronic serous otitis media (S.O.M.) was performed. Sixty-eight children (127 ears) were investigated. From this study it appeared that cleansing of the ear canal with 0.5% chlorhexidine in 70% ethanol for 30 s is partially effective; micro-organisms (diptheroids, Staphylococcus epidermidis) could still be isolated in 29%. Cleansing of the ear canal decreases the incidence of middle-ear fluid contamination by non-pathogenic ear canal organisms (diptheroids, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Aerococcus), but after cleansing, 'non-pathogenic' micro-organisms could still be isolated in 33% of the effusions (diptheroids, Staphylococcus epidermidis). From 12% of the middle-ear effusions pathogenic micro-organisms (Hemophilus influenzae, Staphylococcus pneumoniae) were isolated; cleansing of the ear canal did not influence this percentage. Anaerobics were not isolated from the middle-ear effusions.[1]

References

  1. Serous otitis media (S.O.M.). A bacteriological study of the ear canal and the middle ear. Cabenda, S.I., Peerbooms, P.G., van Asselt, G.J., Feenstra, L., van der Baan, S. Int. J. Pediatr. Otorhinolaryngol. (1988) [Pubmed]
 
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