Example sentences for: otitis

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  • Some authors have proposed that in otitis media with effusion, nontypeable H. influenzae grow in the form of a biofilm in the middle ear [ 15 22 23 ] .

  • The isolates recovered from the same patient were proven to be distinct strains of nontypeable H. influenzae based on outer membrane protein patterns [ 32 44 ] . Fifteen isolates were recovered from the middle ear fluids obtained by tympanocentesis from children with otitis media.

  • In view of these lines of evidence suggesting that nontypeable H influenzae grows as a biofilm during human respiratory tract infection, the goals of the present study are to 1) Develop an assay to study biofilms of nontypeable H. influenzae in vitro; 2) Characterize the extent to which isolates from the middle ear fluid of children with otitis media and from the sputum of adults with COPD form biofilms; 3) Begin to elucidate the characteristics of the outer membrane antigens of nontypeable H. influenzae during growth as a biofilm; and 4) Preliminarily assess the role of pili in biofilm formation.

  • To understand the pathogenesis of otitis media, it is important to identify genes involved in response to pneumococcal middle-ear infection and to study their roles in otitis media.

  • Systemic antibodies to several pneumococcal protein antigens, which are conserved across pneumococcal strains and serotypes, develop following pneumococcal carriage and otitis media and are present by the beginning of the second year of life [20,21].


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