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Comparative Study
. 2018 Dec;14(3):459-463.
doi: 10.5152/iao.2018.5374.

Differences in Antibiotic Resistance of MRSA Infections in Patients with Various Types of Otitis Media

Moo Kyun Park  1 , Dong Woo Nam  1 , Jae Yong Byun  2 , Seok Min Hong  3 , Chang Hoon Bae  4 , Ho Yun Lee  5 , Eun-Ju Jeon  6 , Myung Gu Kim  7 , Sang Hoon Kim  2 , Seung Geun Yeo  2
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Comparative Study

Differences in Antibiotic Resistance of MRSA Infections in Patients with Various Types of Otitis Media

Moo Kyun Park et al. J Int Adv Otol. 2018 Dec.

Abstract

Objectives: We investigated the epidemiological and antibiotic resistance differences in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in patients with otitis media with effusion (OME), acute otitis media (AOM), chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM), and chronic cholesteatomatous otitis media (CCOM).

Materials and methods: We conducted a retrospective study of patients with newly identified MRSA infections from January 2009 through January 2017. Overall, 3,522 patients from 10 tertiary referral hospitals were included in the study. An antibiotic sensitivity test was performed for each isolate.

Results: MRSA infections in patients with CSOM and CCOM were more resistant to ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, erythromycin, gentamicin, levofloxacin, and tetracycline. Patients showed good susceptibility to rifampicin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX), and vancomycin.

Conclusion: MRSA infections in various otitis media cases showed different resistance patterns. MRSA infections in patients with COM and CCOM were more resistant to antibiotics than those in patients with OME and AOM.

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Conflict of Interest: The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

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