Review Article
Infectious Causes of Cholesteatoma and Treatment of Infected Ossicles prior to Reimplantation by Hydrostatic High-Pressure Inactivation
Table 1
Bacterial and fungal species isolated from cholesteatoma material according to [
9–
17].
| Subgroup | Species |
| Gram-positive aerobic cocci | Kocuria rosea | Leuconostoc mesenteroides ssp. cremoris | Micrococcus luteus | Staphylococcus aureus | Staphylococcus auricularis | Staphylococcus capitis | Staphylococcus epidermidis | Staphylococcus hominis | Staphylococcus simulans | Streptococcus mitis | Streptococcus sanguinis |
| Gram-positive aerobic rods | Bacillus licheniformis | Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum | Turicella otitidis |
| Gram-positive anaerobic cocci | Peptostreptococcus spp. |
| Gram-positive anaerobic rods | Clostridium bifermentans | Eubacterium limosum | Fusobacterium spp. | Propionibacterium acnes | Propionibacterium granulosum |
| Gram-negative aerobic cocci | Neisseria sicca | Neisseria subflava |
| Gram-negative aerobic rods | Aeromonas salmonicida | Acinetobacter baumannii | Burkholderia cenocepacia | Brevundimonas diminuta | Histophilus somni | Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Pseudomonas fluorescence | Ralstonia pickettii | Sphingomonas paucimobilis |
| Gram-negative anaerobic cocci | Veillonella parvula |
| Gram-negative anaerobic rods | Bacteroides ureolyticus | Porphyromonas spp. | Prevotella spp. |
| Yeasts | Candida albicans |
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