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The microbiome of otitis media with effusion in Indigenous Australian children

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, July 2015
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Title
The microbiome of otitis media with effusion in Indigenous Australian children
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International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, July 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.ijporl.2015.07.013
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Jake Jervis-Bardy, Geraint B. Rogers, Peter S. Morris, Heidi C. Smith-Vaughan, Elizabeth Nosworthy, Lex E.X. Leong, Renee J. Smith, Laura S. Weyrich, Jacques De Haan, A. Simon Carney, Amanda J. Leach, Stephen O’Leary, Robyn L. Marsh

Abstract

Indigenous Australian children have a high prevalence of otitis media with effusion (OME) and associated conductive hearing loss. Only three microbiological studies of middle ear fluid (MEF) from Indigenous Australian children with OME have been reported. All of these were reliant on culture or species-specific PCR assays. The aim of this study was to characterise the middle ear fluid (MEF), adenoid and nasopharyngeal (NP) microbiomes of Indigenous Australian children, using culture-independent 16S rRNA gene sequencing. MEF, NP swabs and adenoid specimens were collected from 11 children in the Alice Springs region of Central Australia. Bacterial communities in these specimens were characterised using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The microbiota in MEF samples were dominated (>50% relative abundance) by operational taxonomic units (OTUs) consistent with Alloiococcus otitidis (6/11), Haemophilus influenzae (3/11) or Streptococcus sp. (specifically, Mitis group streptococci which includes Streptococcus pneumoniae) (1/11). Anatomical site selectivity was indicated by the presence of a single conserved Haemophilus OTU in 7/11 MEF samples. In comparison, there were ten distinct Haemophilus OTUs observed across the NP and adenoid samples. Despite significant differences between the MEF and NP/adenoid microbiomes, Streptococcus sp., H. influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis OTUs were common to all sample types. Co-occurrence of classical otopathogens in paired MEF and NP/Adenoid samples is consistent with earlier culture-based studies. These data highlight the need to further assess H. influenzae traits important in otitis media and to understand the role of canal flora, especially A. otitidis, in populations with a high prevalence of tympanic membrane perforation.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 55 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 20%
Student > Bachelor 9 16%
Researcher 7 13%
Student > Master 6 11%
Other 5 9%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 11 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 42%
Immunology and Microbiology 8 15%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 11 20%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 March 2016.
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#7,896,290
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Outputs from International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
#459
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#80,908
of 258,632 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
#8
of 74 outputs
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