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        <journal-meta>
            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
            </journal-title-group>
            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
            </publisher>
        </journal-meta>
        <article-meta>
            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.11.2.25</article-id>
            <title-group>
                <article-title>Comparing Culture and Multiplex PCR Methods to Examine Fastidious Bacteria in Otitis Externa and Media</article-title>
            </title-group>
            <contrib-group>
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Delsouz Bahri</surname>
                        <given-names>Tina</given-names>
                    </name>
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                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Goudarzi</surname>
                        <given-names>Mehdi</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-2"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Ghafoori</surname>
                        <given-names>Seyed Mohammad</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-3"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Ebrahimi</surname>
                        <given-names>Nasrin</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-4"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Asadi</surname>
                        <given-names>Arezoo</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-5"/>
                </contrib>
				
				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Goudarzi</surname>
                        <given-names>Hossein</given-names>
                    </name>
                    <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-6"/>
                </contrib>
                		
            </contrib-group>
			
			
            <aff id="aff-1">Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-2">Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine,Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-3">Department of Biotechnology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-4">Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine,Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-5">Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
			<aff id="aff-6">Department of Microbiology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</aff>
			
			
	 
			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2017-06-30">
                <day>30</day>
                <month>06</month>
                <year>2017</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>11</volume>
            <issue>2</issue>
            <fpage>871</fpage>
            <lpage>878</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2017 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2017</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
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                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://www.microbiologyjournal.org/comparing-culture-and-multiplex-pcr-methods-to-examine-fastidious-bacteria-in-otitis-externa-and-media/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p>Ear infection or otitis is a generic term used to refer to ear infection or inflammation. The purpose of the present study was to compare culture and Multiplex PCR methods to identify Alloiococcus otitidis, Moraxella catarrhalis, and Haemophilus influenza as three fastidious pathogens causing otitis. 100 patients, who had the physician-confirmed infection of the external ear and otitis media, were randomly sampled. The samples were analyzed with culture and Multiplex PCR. None of the three bacteria were found in samples of otitis externa by culture or PCR. In the case of otitis media three isolates of Alloiococcus otitidis, one isolation of Moraxella catarrhalis, and three strains of Haemophilus influenza were found using culture method. In the case of otitis media three isolates of Alloiococcus otitidis, one isolation of Moraxella catarrhalis, and three strains of Haemophilus influenza were found using culture method, but the rate of these bacteria were 25, 11 and 28 isolates using Multiplex PCR. The Multiplex PCR method was found to be furthermost sensitive, truthful and reproducible screening method for detection of fastidious bacteria.
		</p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Otitis media</kwd>
        <kwd>Otitis externa</kwd>
			<kwd>Multiplex PCR</kwd>
			<kwd>Fastidious bacteria</kwd>
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