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Acute otitis media is a common disease whose cause is complex. Recent estimates suggest that more than 12 million episodes of acute otitis media are treated annually in the United States. Three bacteria — Streptococcus pneumoniae, nontypable Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis — are usually listed as the most common etiologic agents. Although it has long been known that various respiratory viruses can be detected in the middle-ear fluid during acute episodes, their exact pathogenetic role and their relative importance as causative agents are still largely unknown. From a clinical vantage point it would be valuable to know which viruses . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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