Respiratory Viruses and Acute Otitis Media

• Published in: The New England journal of medicine Vol. 340; no. 25; pp. 2001 - 2002
• Main Authors: Pitkäranta, A, Hayden, F G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 24.06.1999
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Child; Ear, Middle - virology; Humans; Otitis Media with Effusion - virology; Respiratory Syncytial Viruses - isolation & purification; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; Rhinovirus - isolation & purification; RNA, Viral - analysis

To the Editor: Heikkinen et al. (Jan. 28 issue) 1 studied the prevalence of various respiratory viruses in samples of middle-ear effusions from children with acute otitis media and found that respiratory syncytial virus had the highest rate of detection. Although respiratory viruses may differ in th...