Principais agentes causadores de otite bacteriana diagnosticados em pacientes do Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley / UFPB.

Abstract

The term otiti s refers to all of inflammation of the ear and could involve any party of the organ. The most frequents in clinic would be the external otitis and medial. The external otitis generally is caused from a bacteri al colonization or by fungus: after the maceration of the skin in the location. Since is medial otitis the principal cause would be bacterial and viral. Studies show the bacteria most found in cases of external otitis and medial are the Pseudomonas aerugin osas and Staphylococcus aureus . The bacterial infection that afflict the ear do not are sickness. Therefore this study has objective characterize this infection from collect data in University Hospital Lauro Wanderley (UHLW). It is a transversal non - experi mental research described quantitatively and was performed over data collecting in the register books of Bacterial Laboratory from ambulator y patients of this institution . P. aeruginosa (15%) and S. aureus (13%) was bacteria of medical relevance with the greatest potential, total of cases treated was 258 with 203 positive for bacteria and the most of the patients was the female gender(63%).