Otitis media and its consequences: beyond the earache

Abstract

Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Epidemiology Unit, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (A Vergison MD); Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel (R Dagan MD); Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Division of Pediatrics, Instituto de Atencion Pediatrica, University of Medical Sciences, San Jose, Costa Rica (A Arguedas MD); Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, University Children’s Hospital, Basel, Switzerland (J Bonhoeff er MD); Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Creteil Hospital, France (R Cohen MD); Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium (I DHooge MD); Division of General Academic Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (A Hoberman MD); Department of Vaccines and Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Children’s Hospital Wurzburg, Germany (J Liese MD); Paediatric Department, University of Milan and Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore, Policlinico Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, Milan, Italy (P Marchisio MD); Clinical Research Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland (A A Palmu MD); Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA (G T Ray MBA); Department of Paediatric Immunology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Netherlands (E A M Sanders MD); Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA (E A F Simoes MD); Department of Pediatrics and Adolescence, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland (M Uhari MD); Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium Otitis media and its consequences: beyond the earache