A microbiological study of acute maxillary sinusitis in Bloemfontein.
Microbiological analyses and antibiotic sensitivity tests were done on 26 patients with acute maxillary sinusitis during the first 9 months of 1986. Positive cultures were obtained in 23 of the patients, with anaerobes cultured in 13 (50%). Haemophilus influenzae was cultured in all non-producers of beta-lactamase. Therapy with erythromycin and chloromycetin appeared to be equally effective in aerobic cases and metronidazole was effective in all anaerobic cases.
Snyman
J
J
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein.
Claassen
A J
AJ
Botha
P L
PL
D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D008443:Maxillary Sinus / Q000382:microbiology; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D013019:South Africa