[Bacteriologic findings in ear exudates from ambulatory care patients]

The results obtained in a microbiological survey carried out with 102 samples of otic effusions taken from 95 outdoor patients in a ORL surgery are shown. Sixty-eight of these patients had supurative otitis media symptoms and 25 had diffuse otitis externa. Results of microbiological cultures are commented according to different statistics variables (age, sex, supuration time and type of tympanic perforation) and compared with the results obtained by other authors.