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Expert Opin Pharmacother
March 2002
University of Rochester Medical Center, 1065 Senator Keating Boulevard, Suite 210, Rochester, NY 14618, USA.
Acute bacterial rhinosinusitis (ABRS) is a well-recognised and common problem confronting many primary care physicians but the abuse of antibiotic therapy for viral aetiologies of ABRS has lead to widespread bacterial resistance. The once easily-eradicated pathogens have developed many mechanisms to resist antimicrobial therapies. The most common pathogens Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and Moraxella catarrhalis are still found in cultures of sinus cavities but Staphylococcus and possibly some anaerobes play an important role in the development of the chronic stage of rhinosinusitis.
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July 1998
Honorary Consultant Microbiologist, Gorakhpur.
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