Table 1 |
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| Bacterial etiology of episodes (ATP cohort) | ||||||
| Otorrhoea N = 76 | Tympanocentesis N = 24 | Total N = 100 | ||||
| Culture positive for | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Any growth | 43 | 57 | 10 | 42 | 53 | 53 |
| Streptococcus pneumoniae | 10 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Haemophilus influenzae | 14 | 18 | 7 | 29 | 21 | 21 |
| Streptococcus pyogenes | 13 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| Moraxella catarrhalis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Achromobacter spp. | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Acinetobacter lwoffii | 0 | - | 1 | 50 | 1 | 7 |
| Coryneobacertium spp. | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Escherichia coli | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 8 | 62 | 1 | 50 | 9 | 60 |
N = number of episodes.
% = n/Number of episodes with available results x 100.
Note: More than one other bacteria was detected for some samples.
Grevers et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2012 12:312 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-12-312
