Otopathogens Detected in Middle Ear Fluid Obtained during Tympanostomy Tube Insertion: Contrasting Purulent and Non-Purulent Effusions

• Robert C. Holder ,

  * E-mail: roholder@wakehealth.edu

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Daniel J. Kirse,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Adele K. Evans,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Amy S. Whigham,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Timothy R. Peters,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Katherine A. Poehling,

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• William E. Swords,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Sean D. Reid

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Ross University School of Medicine, Roseau, Dominica, West Indies

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