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Bacteriological features and chemotherapy of adult acute purulent otitis media

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Rinya Sugita ,
Yutaka Fujimaki  and
Koichi Deguchi
Rinya Sugita*
Affiliation:
Juntendo University School of Medicine, Urayasu Hospital, Department of Otorhinolaryngology.
Yutaka Fujimaki
Affiliation:
Juntendo University School of Medicine, Urayasu Hospital, Department of Otorhinolaryngology.
Koichi Deguchi
Affiliation:
Tokyo Clinical Research Center.
*
Rinya Sugita M.D., Dept of Otorhinolaryngology, Juntendo Urayasu Hospital, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2–1–1 Tomioka, Urayasu City, Chiba 272–01, Japan.
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Abstract

Abstract Eighty-eight patients from 16 to 79 years old, with acute purulent otitis media, were bacteriologically examined at the Otorhinolaryngology Department of a primary care hospital in Tokyo from July 1979 to May 1983. Fifty-six patients underwent paracentesis, and 32 patients exhibited otorrhea due to previous spontaneous perforation of the tympanic membrane.

Bacteriologic cultures revealed the presence of Streptococcus pneumoniae (62.5 per cent), including S. pneumoniae Type III (28.1 per cent), Haemophilus influenzae (10.5 per cent), Staphylococcus aureus (11.5 per cent), and Streptococcus pyogenes (7.3 per cent). S. pneumoniae Type III had a notably high detection rate in patients from 50 to 79 years old (50–75 per cent). Because Haemophilus influenzae was detected at a relatively high rate in patients of all ages, if can be considered as a was detected at a relatively high rate in patients of all ages, if can be considered as a major causative pathogen of AOM.

In 44 patients, selected mainly from those who underwent paracentesis, a comparative study of bacteria found in middle ear fluid and naso-pharyngeal mucus revealed the same nacteria in 43 out of 44 cases. (97.7 per cent), indicating the presence of bacterial infection through the auditory canal.

Antibiotics were selected according to an Expected Efficiacy Index (EEI), the antibiotic of first choice being Ampicillin or Cefaclor.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 99 , Issue 7 , July 1985 , pp. 629 - 635
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1985

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