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Specific Viral Culprit Hard to Find in Otitis Media

by Ed Susman • December 1, 2008

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Dr. Hirsch said the take-home messages in Dr. Alper’s report are that kids with colds had a relatively high incident of otitis media, about 30 percent, and it could be asymptomatic, and secondly that the origins of the children’s colds were typically caused by rhinoviruses.

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Filed Under: Otology/Neurotology, Pediatric, Practice Focus, Rhinology Tagged With: otitis media, pediatric, research, respiratory, virusIssue: December 2008

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