Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci in Otorrhea
耳漏中のコアグラーゼ陰性ブドウ球菌の検討

Hitoshi Satoh, Naobumi Nonomura, Yuichi Nakno
1993 Practica Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica  
The pathogenicity of coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS) in aural infectious diseases is controversial. To determine the contribution of CNS to the development of aural infectious diseases, bacteriological studies of otorrhea obtained from patients with otitis externa, acute otitis media, chronic otitis media and tympanostomy tube complications were performed. Six species and 49 CNS including 22 S. simulans, 14 S. epidermidis, 9 S. capitis, 2 S. auricularis, one S. hominis and one S. sciuri
more » ... ere isolated from the 48 otorrheas, and 21 of them were isolated without any other bacteria. Some CNS were resistant to a variety of antimicrobial drugs and had 3-lactamase. This study indicates that some CNS may induce inflammatory processes directly by a parasite-host relationship, and/or indirectly by inactivating antimicrobial drugs.
doi:10.5631/jibirin.86.189 fatcat:qcgnjfmd2fajfmudsdoqd2t3tm