Publications

[bacterial epidemiology of acute otitis media].	since the middle of the 1980's, haemophilus influenzae is the most common bacterial species responsible for acute otitis media in france, followed by streptococcus pneumoniae. haemophilus influenzae has maintained its leading position since 1985, but the rate of pneumococcal acute otitis media is increasing fairly steadily. the other recent change with regard to the distribution of bacterial agents is the emergence, four years later than in north america, of branhamella catarrhalis which current ...	1992	1456675
[a review of four cases of branhamella catarrhalis bacteremia in children].	branhamella catarrhalis was recovered from one blood culture each from three infants and one neonate admitted to the trousseau hospital (paris) between 1986 and 1988. clinical features included fever in every case, otitis in three cases, pneumonia in two cases, diarrhea in one case, and enterocolitis in one case. all the strains were beta-lactamase producers. outcome was favorable in every case. the antimicrobial agent used was erythromycin in one case, amoxicillin in one case, and a third gener ...	1990	2107783
microbiology of otitis media in the paris, france, area from 1987 to 1997.	to investigate epidemiologic trends in the bacteriology of acute otitis media, data were recorded during a 10-year period by the same group of investigators during clinical studies in pediatric outpatients.	2001	11419497
epidemiologic study of conjunctivitis-otitis syndrome.	we conducted a prospective cross-sectional epidemiologic study of conjunctivitis-otitis syndrome during two 3-week periods of consecutive winters. a representative sample of 184 pediatricians and ear, nose and throat specialists in the paris area recruited 2901 children from 6 to 36 months of age presenting with acute otitis media, of whom 465 (16%) also had purulent conjunctivitis. in sampled children, the culture of the conjunctival exudate yielded bacterial pathogens in 419 patients: haemophi ...	2005	16094231