Australia: Viral-Bacterial Co-Infection In Australian Indigenous Children With Acute Otitis Media

Australia: Viral-Bacterial Co-Infection In Australian Indigenous Children With Acute Otitis Media Michael J Binks, Allen C Cheng, Heidi Smith-Vaughan, Theo Sloots, Michael Nissen, David Whiley, Joseph McDonnell, and Amanda J Leach, 2011   Background: Acute otitis media with perforation (AOMwiP) affects 40% of remote Indigenous children during the first 18 months of life. Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis are the primary bacterial pathogens of otitis...

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