Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria Causing Acute Suppurative Otitis Media in Egypt

ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

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Maryam Kotb¹ , Maged Bahgat², Shabaan Hashem³, Hussein Sabit⁴, and Marwan ElBagoury⁵

¹Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Modern University for Technology & Information, Cairo, Egypt.

²Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

³Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Assuit University, Assuit, Egypt.

⁴Department of Microbial Genetics, Faculty of Biotechnology, Misr University for Science and Technology, 6^th of October, Egypt.

⁵Universität Ulm – Medizinische Fakultät, Ulm, Deutschland.

J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2017;11(4):1833-1837

https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.11.4.22 | © The Author(s). 2017

Received: 01/11/2017 | Accepted: 10/12/2017 | Published: 31/12/2017

Abstract

Microbiology and susceptibility of middle ear (ME) pathogens are changing continuously. The aim of the present study was to report the isolation and characterization of causative bacteria involved in acute suppurative otitis media (ASOM) in Egypt. The study was conducted for a period of 6 months from February 2009 – August 2009. Seventy six patients with ASOM of all age groups and both sexes attending Kasr Al Aini Teaching Hospital outpatient clinic were randomly selected for the study. Seventy eight pus samples were obtained for the study. The results have shown that Staphylococcus aureus was the most common causative microorganism (78.37%), followed by Streptococcus pnemoniae (13.79%).

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Otitis media, acute supprative otitis media, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pnemoniae, Egypt.

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