Bacterial involvement in otitis media with effusion
Objective Otitis media with effusion (OME), a common chronic childhood condition affecting hearing, is thought to be a result of bacterial infection, with biofilms recently implicated. Although bacterial DNA can be detected by polymerase chain reaction in 80% of patients, typically fewer than half...
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Elsevier
2012
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2764/ |