Direct Detection of Bacterial Biofilms on the Middle-Ear Mucosa of Children With Chronic Otitis Media

Hall‐Stoodley, Luanne; Hu, Fen; Gieseke, Armin; Nistico, Laura; Quang Nguyen, Duc; Hayes, Jay; L. Forbes, Michael; P. Greenberg, David; Dice, Bethany; Burrows, Amy; Ashley Wackym, P.; Stoodley, Paul; Christopher Post, J.; D. Ehrlich, Garth; E. Kerschner, Joseph

doi:10.1001/jama.296.2.202

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Direct Detection of Bacterial Biofilms on the Middle-Ear Mucosa of Children With Chronic Otitis Media

Published in JAMA • Jul 11, 2006

Authors:

Luanne Hall‐Stoodley

Fen Hu

Armin Gieseke

Abstract

CONTEXT: Chronic otitis media (OM) is a common pediatric infectious disease. Previous studies demonstrating that metabolically active bacteria exist in culture-negative pediatric middle-ear effusions and that experimental infection with Haemophilus influenzae in the chinchilla model of otitis media ...

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Medicine

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