Pseudomonas aeruginosa in swimming pools related to the incidence of otitis externa infection.
A study is reported which demonstrates that four out of twenty-four people developed otitis externa as a result of swimming in a pool with a high incidence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Serotyping and phage typing were used to establish that P. aeruginosa was the etiolgoical event responsible for the outbreaks of the infection.
D001434:Bacteriophage Typing; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D010032:Otitis Externa / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012703:Serotyping; D013551:Swimming Pools