title: [Pseudomonas and alcaligenes--pathogens of the chronic ear infection in clinical cases at the Otolaryngology Department of the University Hospital in Krakow].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Otitis media chronica is the most common disorders encountered in otolaryngology. The great multitude of different bacteria which may couse otitis media constitutes the need for bacteriological diagnostics, especially in cases where classical conservative treatement of the inflammatory process fails.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bacterial culture results procured from hospitalized and ambulatory patients which chronic otitis media, admitted from 2003 to 2006 at the otolaryngological department were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In total 47 patients were found to have their middle ear infected with Pseudomonas species and 1 patient with Alcaligenes xylosoxidans rods.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In cases of ear infection which fails conservative treatment, especially in immunocomprimised can be caused by pathogens which are resistant to most commonly administered antibiotics.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Klinika Otolaryngologii Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie. agnieszkamorawska@op.pl
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morawska
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wiatr
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Składzień
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Pradel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000421:Alcaligenes / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000276:immunology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D011044:Poland; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000302:isolation & purification*