caa a22 4500 386346259 CHVBK 20180307111812.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022215100108990 doi S0022215100108990 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022215100108990 Nasopharyngeal bacterial flora before and after adenoidectomy [Elektronische Daten] Fifty patients (23 males and 27 females), with chronically hypertrophied and infected adenoids were subjected to adenoidectomy. Pre- and post-operative nasopharyngeal swabs were taken to study bacterial colonization of the nasopharynx both quantitatively and qualitatively. Twenty healthy controls were included in this study. The swabs were cultured on MacConkey's and Columbia blood agar plates. The rate of isolation of potentially pathogenic microorganisms decreased markedly following operation, while normal inhabitant organisms showed notable increase in their numbers post-operatively to reach a near normal level. It is concluded from this work that adenoidectomy produces a physiological effect on the nasopharyngeal microflora by conversion of an abnormal flora to a nearly normal one. Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1989 Talaat A. M. Alexandria, Egypt. Bahgat Y. S. Alexandria, Egypt. El-Ghazzawy E. Alexandria, Egypt. Elwany S. Alexandria, Egypt. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 103/4(1989-04), 372-374 0022-2151 103:4<372 1989 103 JLO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100108990 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100108990 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Talaat A. M. Alexandria, Egypt NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bahgat Y. S. Alexandria, Egypt NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- El-Ghazzawy E. Alexandria, Egypt NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Elwany S. Alexandria, Egypt NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 103/4(1989-04), 372-374 0022-2151 103:4<372 1989 103 JLO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge