Table 2.
Species identified from culture experiments within the different patient types.
| Unilateral purulent maxillary CRS | CRS with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) | CRS without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) | Healthy sinus mucosa | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swab-cultures | Biopsie-cultures | Swab-cultures | Biopsie-cultures | Swab-cultures | Biopsie-cultures | Swab-cultures | Biopsie-cultures |
| Enterobacteria | Enterobacteria | Enterobacteria | Enterobacteria | Enterobacteria | Enterobacteria | Enterobacteria | Enterobacteria |
| C. braakii (1) | C. braakii (1) | E. cloacae (1) | E. cloacae (1) | E. coli (1) | E. coli (1) | K. pneumoniae (1) | |
| C. youngae (1) | C. youngae (1) | P. mirabilis (1) | P. mirabilis (1) | S. marcescens (1) | K. oxytoca (1) | K. oxytoca (1) | |
| K. pneumoniae (1) | K. pneumoniae (1) | K. oxytoca (1) | K. oxytoca (1) | ||||
| R. gilardii (1) | R. gilardii (1) | K. pneumoniae (1) | |||||
| C. koseri (1) | C. koseri (1) | ||||||
| Staphylococci | Staphylococci | Staphylococci | Staphylococci | Staphylococci | Staphylococci | Staphylococci | Staphylococci |
| S. aureus (1) | S. epidermidis (5) | S. epidermidis (5) | S. epidermidis (5) | S. epidermidis (5) | S. aureus (2) | S. aureus (2) | |
| S. epidermidis (4) | S. epidermidis (4) | S. pasteuri (1) | S. aureus (1) | S. aureus (1) | S. epidermidis (3) | S. epidermidis (2) | |
| S. capitis (2) | S. capitis (1) | S. hominis (1) | S. hominis (1) | R. mucilanginosa (1) | S. capitis (2) | S. capitis (1) | |
| S. capitis (3) | S. capitis (1) | S. lugdunensis (1) | |||||
| S. aureus (2) | |||||||
| Streptococci | Streptococci | Streptococci | Streptococci | Streptococci | Streptococci | Streptococci | Streptococci |
| S. anginosus (1) | S. anginosus (1) | Viridans streptococci (1) | Viridans streptococci (1) | Viridans streptococci (1) | |||
| Viridans streptococci (1) | Viridans streptococci (1) | ||||||
| Anaerobic bacteria | Anaerobic bacteria | Anaerobic bacteria | Anaerobic bacteria | Anaerobic bacteria | Anaerobic bacteria | Anaerobic bacteria | Anaerobic bacteria |
| P. granulosum (1) | P. granulosum (1) | F. magna (1) | F. magna (1) | P. acnes (5) | P. acnes (5) | P. acnes (3) | P. acnes (3) |
| P. acnes (3) | P. acnes (3) | P. acnes (5) | P. acnes (5) | F. magna (1) | F. magna (1) | Bifidobacterium spp. (1) | Bifidobacterium spp. (1) |
| P. oris (1) | P. oris (1) | P. granulosum (1) | P. granulosum (1) | P. granulosum (1) | P. granulosum (1) | P. avidum (1) | |
| F. nucleatum (2) | F. nucleatum (2) | B. urealyticus (1) | |||||
| P. micra (1) | P. micra (1) | P. avidum (1) | P. avidum (1) | ||||
| P. avidum (1) | |||||||
| Bifidobacterium sp. (1) | Bifidobacterium sp. (1) | ||||||
| Coryneforme bacteria | Coryneforme bacteria | Coryneforme bacteria | Coryneforme bacteria | Coryneforme bacteria | Coryneforme bacteria | Coryneforme bacteria | Coryneforme bacteria |
| Corynebacterium spp. (2) | Corynebacterium spp. (1) | Corynebacterium spp. (4) | Corynebacterium spp. (4) | Corynebacterium spp. (3) | Corynebacterium spp. (2) | Corynebacterium spp. (3) | Corynebacterium spp. (1) |
| Haemophilus | Haemophilus | Haemophilus | Haemophilus | Haemophilus | Haemophilus | Haemophilus | Haemophilus |
| H. parainfluenzae (1) | H. influenzae (1) | H. influenzae (1) | |||||
| H. parainfluenzae (1) | Lysinibacillus | Lysinibacillus | |||||
| Lysinibacillus spp. (1) | Lysinibacillus spp. (1) | ||||||
The table shows the bacteria identified in the swab- and biopsie-cultures, respectively. The number in brackets reflects the number of patients found with the named/corresponding species in the investigated patient type.