A case of chronic suppurative otitis media caused by Kerstersia gyiorum

Elif B Uysal; Cem Çelik; Nevin Tuzcu; Fevzi Can; Mansur Doğan; Rahşan Ertürk; Mustafa Z Bakici

doi:10.1111/apm.12434

A case of chronic suppurative otitis media caused by Kerstersia gyiorum

APMIS. 2015 Nov;123(11):986-9. doi: 10.1111/apm.12434. Epub 2015 Aug 25.

Authors

Elif B Uysal¹, Cem Çelik¹, Nevin Tuzcu², Fevzi Can³, Mansur Doğan³, Rahşan Ertürk⁴, Mustafa Z Bakici¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey.
² Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology Faculty of Pharmacy, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey.
³ Department of Otorhinolaringology, Faculty of Medicine Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey.
⁴ Microbiology Laboratory, Research and Practice Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey.

PMID: 26303793
DOI: 10.1111/apm.12434

Abstract

Chronic suppurative otitis media is inflammation of the middle ear and mastoid that involves discharge and hearing loss. Kerstersia gyiorum is a member of the Alcaligenaceae family that who could not be treated with classical treatments such as patients with chronic otitis media, neck abscesses. K. gyiorum strain isolated from a patient with chronic suppurative otitis media.

Keywords: Chronic suppurative otitis media; Kerstersia gyiorum; MALDI-TOF MS.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Alcaligenaceae / drug effects
Alcaligenaceae / genetics
Alcaligenaceae / pathogenicity*
Chronic Disease
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / drug therapy
Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
Humans
Male
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Molecular Typing
Otitis Media, Suppurative / drug therapy
Otitis Media, Suppurative / microbiology*
RNA, Bacterial / genetics
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics

Substances

RNA, Bacterial
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S