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- Title
Microorganisms isolated from infected aural fistulas.
- Authors
Sugita, Rinya; Kawamura, Shozo; Ichikawa, Ginichiro; Fujimaki, Yutaka; Oguri, Toyoko; Deguchi, Koichi
- Abstract
Aural fistula is a congenital deformity of the external ear relatively common in Orientals and rare in Caucasians. Suppuration tends to occur, and chemotherapy rather than surgical drainage should be attempted. However, the lack of information concerning infected aural fistulas has made appropriate chemotherapy difficult. Microorganisms isolated from 13 cases of infected aural fistulas were studied from January 1981 to December 1982. Six species and 22 strains were isolated; nonsporeforming faculative anaerobes were detected in 12 cases. The isolated pathogens included Peplococcun up (10 cases), Peplostreplococcus up (3), Bacteroides sp (3), and Funobacterium sp (2). One case exhibited only Staphylocoecus aureus. Our data also stresses the etiologic importance of anaerobic grampositive cocci in infected aural fistulas.
- Publication
Laryngoscope, 1984, Vol 94, Issue 11, p1468
- ISSN
0023-852X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1288/00005537-198411000-00015