TY - JOUR
TI - MICROBIOLOGY OF ACUTE MASTOIDITIS AND COMPLICATED OR REFRACTORY ACUTE
OTITIS MEDIA AMONG HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN IN THE POSTVACCINATION ERA
AU - Giannakopoulos, Polyvios
AU - Chrysovergis, Aristeidis
AU - Xirogianni,
AU - Athanasia
AU - Nikolopoulos, Thomas P.
AU - Radiotis, Alexandros and
AU - Lebessi, Evangelia
AU - Tsakanikos, Michail
AU - Tzanakaki, Georgina and
AU - Tsolia, Maria N.
JO - The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
PY - 2014
VL - 33
TODO - 1
SP - 111-113
PB - Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
SN - 0891-3668, 1532-0987
TODO - 10.1097/INF.0b013e3182a6adb7
TODO - acute mastoiditis; refractory acute otitis media; complicated acute
otitis media; Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19A; conjugate
pneumococcal vaccine-heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
TODO - In the post-heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine era,
Streptococcus pneumoniae remains the leading cause of acute mastoiditis
and other complicated or refractory acute otitis media among
hospitalized children in our settings. Serotype 19A is predominant,
invasive and multidrug resistant causing more than half of all
mastoiditis cases, two-thirds of cases with subperiosteal abscess and
all those requiring mastoidectomy. Continuous surveillance is required.
ER -