Clinical infectious diseases, 1997-11, Vol.25 (5), p.1090-1093
1997
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Chlamydia pneumoniae in Children with Otitis Media
- Ist Teil von
- Clinical infectious diseases, 1997-11, Vol.25 (5), p.1090-1093
- Ort / Verlag
- Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 1997
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- In this study the polymerase chain reaction was used to test for the presence of Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA in 118 middle-ear aspirates from 20 children with acute otitis media (AOM) and 53 children with otitis media with effusion (OME). C. pneumoniae was detected in 8 samples obtained from 5 children with OME and, together with Streptococcus pneumoniae, in a sample from 1 child with AOM. The mean age of these five children (6.6 ± 1.4 years) was significantly higher than that of the 48 children with OME in whom C. pneumoniae could not be detected (4.3 ± 1.9 years). The presence of C. pneumoniae in 9.4% of the examined children with OME suggests that C. pneumoniae might be a significant supplementary factor in the etiology of this common children's disease.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1058-4838eISSN: 1537-6591DOI: 10.1086/516087Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_79462314
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Acute Disease, Bacteria, Bacterial diseases, Biological and medical sciences, Child, Child, Preschool, Children, Chlamydia, Chlamydia Infections - microbiology, Chlamydia Infections - pathology, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, Chlamydophila pneumoniae - genetics, Chlamydophila pneumoniae - isolation & purification, Clinical Articles, Ears, Ent and stomatologic bacterial diseases, Female, Human bacterial diseases, Humans, Infections, Infectious diseases, Male, Medical sciences, Otitis media, Otitis Media - microbiology, Otitis Media - pathology, Otitis Media with Effusion - microbiology, Otitis Media with Effusion - pathology, Polymerase chain reaction, Symptoms