Abstract
PCR was used to detect Haemophilus influenzae in samples of nasopharyngeal secretion and middle ear effusion (MEE). Nasopharyngeal secretions were collected from 102 patients with otitis media with effusion and from 111 healthy subjects. Eighty samples of MEE were collected from patients with otitis media with effusion. A pair of primers was designed to amplify a DNA segment of the gene encoding P6 outer membrane protein of H. influenzae. The amplified PCR product was detected with an internal probe that hybridized specifically to the P6 DNA of H. influenzae. Samples of MEE and nasopharyngeal secretion were also examined by a conventional culture method. The incidence of P6 gene DNA in nasopharyngeal secretions detected by PCR was about two times higher than that of H. influenzae detected by the conventional culture. Culture-positive samples were all positive in the PCR test. In MEEs, the rate of detection of the P6 gene DNA target was about five times higher than that of H. influenzae detected by the culture method. All patients who had P6 gene DNA in MEEs were found to have the DNA in nasopharyngeal secretions. These findings suggest that the presence of H. influenzae in MEEs and in nasopharyngeal secretions is more common than previously reported.
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