Persistent Purulent Otitis Media
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Clinical Pediatrics
- Vol. 20 (7) , 445-447
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000992288102000703
Abstract
Of 429 children with acute otitis media who returned for follow-up evalu ation, 49 (11%) were unresponsive to a 10- to 14-day course of ampicillin, amoxicillin, or erythromycin/sulfisoxazole. Patients with persistent purulent otitis media were noted to have immobile, bulging, yellow or grey, abscessed tympanic membranes at the follow-up visit. A myringotomy was performed on 45 children. Cultures of middle-ear exudate yielded ampicillin-resistant Haemophilus influenzae in 14 (31%), ampicillin-susceptible pathogens ( H. in fiuenzae or Streptococcus pneumoniae) in 23 (51%), and no growth in 8 (18%).Keywords
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