BROOK I, GOBER AE; Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Abstr Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1999 Sep 26-29; 39: 77 (abstract no. 1550).
Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC.
PURPOSE: Compare the frequency of recovery of potential pathogens and aerobic and anaerobic interfering bacteria in the nasopharynx and nasal cavity of sinusitis-prone (SP), to their recovery in non sinusitis-prone (N-SP) children. Patients andMETHODS: Nasopharyngeal and nasal cultures were taken from 20 SP and 20 N-SP children. Potential pathogens and aerobic and anaerobic bacteria with interfering capabilities against these organisms were identified.RESULTS: Twenty one potential pathogens were recovered from nasopharyngeal cultures of 14 of the 20 SP, and 10 from 6 of the 20 N-SP (P<0.05). Sixty-four isolates with interfering capability were recovered from the SP group, and 144 from the N-SP group (P<0.05). Nineteen potential pathogens were isolated from nasal cultures of 13 of the 20 SP children, and 8 were recovered from 5 of the 20 N-SP (P<0.05). Twenty-one isolates with interfering capability were recovered from the SP group, and 63 from the N-SP group (P<0.05).CONCLUSION: Our findings illustrate for the first time that the nasopharyngeal and nasal flora of N-SP children contains more aerobic and anaerobic organisms with interfering capability and less potential pathogens as compared with SP children.
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Keywords:
- Antibiosis
- Bacteria, Anaerobic
- Child
- Humans
- Nasal Cavity
- Nasopharynx
- Nose
- Sinusitis
Other ID:
UI: 102244744
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