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| Year : 2013 | Volume
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Tuberculous otitis media and staphylococcus aureus coinfection in a five-year-old boy with miliary tuberculosis
Gopalakrishnan Manigandan, Chandrasekaran Venkatesh, Dhandapani Gunasekaran, Palanisamy Soundararajan
Department of Pediatrics, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pillaiyarkuppam, Puducherry, India
Correspondence Address:
Chandrasekaran Venkatesh
Department of Pediatrics, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pillaiyarkuppam, Puducherry
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0974-777X.107171
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A five-year-old boy with acute on chronic ear discharge and fever was diagnosed to have tubercular otitis media (TOM) with Staphylococcus aureus co-infection. His chest X-ray was suggestive of miliary tuberculosis. The clinical presentation of the child with a brief review of the literature pertaining to the case is being discussed in this report. |
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