acute bacterial rhinosinusitis

Objective. To study antibiotic resistance and its association with serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from hospitalized children with community-acquired ENT infections in Belarus during 2013-2016 and to analyze a potential for the use of different antibiotic classes in the treatment of those infections. Materials and Methods. A total of 115 strains isolated from children with acute otitis media and 18 strains isolated from children with acute rhinosinusitis were tested. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by a broth microdilution method.

The objectives of this study were to investigate etiology of acute bacterial rhinosinusitis (ABR) in young soldiers, to determine susceptibility to different antimicrobial agents and to assess clinical efficacy of antimicrobial therapy in ABR. …