[Pseudomonas and alcaligenes--pathogens of the chronic ear infection in clinical cases at the Otolaryngology Department of the University Hospital in Krakow].
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.
Morawska
Agnieszka
A
Katedra i Klinika Otolaryngologii Collegium Medicum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie. agnieszkamorawska@op.pl
Wiatr
Maciej
M
Składzień
Jacek
J
Pradel
U
U
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*