Volume 20, Number 2—February 2014
Letter
Nasopharyngeal Bacterial Interactions in Children
Table
Comparison of the odds ratios between bacterium pairs for all subjects and children with acute otitis media*
| Bacteria pair | Odds ratios, p values |
|
|---|---|---|
| All subjects | Acute otitis media | |
| NTHi/Mcat | 0.94, p = 0.6935 | 0.47, p = 0.0006 |
| NTHi/Spn | 1.58, p = 0.0004 | 0.50, p = 0.001 |
| Spn/Mcat | 1.71, p<0.0001 | 1.53, p = 0.05 |
*NTHi, nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae; Mcat, Moraxella catarrhailis; Spn, Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Source: (2)
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1On behalf of Qingfu Xu Janet Casey, and Michael Pichichero.
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