AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RHINOLOGY, vol.17, no.3, pp.143-147, 2003 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Although many investigations have been performed on bacteriology of chronic sinusitis and normal sinuses, there still is much discussion. Also a new bacterial agent, Alloiococcus otitidis determined in the nasopharynx and middle ear specimens can be thought as a causative agent of sinusitis.