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Science articlesOn microbial landscape of palatine tonsils in patients with chronic tonsillitis associated with chronic opisthorchiasis invasion
A. I. Izvin (1), A. V. Rudzevich (1), (2)
(1) Tyumen State Medical University, Tyumen, 625023, Russia, (2) Regional Clinical Hospital N 2, Tyumen, 625039, Russia
UDK: УДК 616.322-002:616.995.122.21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2023-1-30-34
ABSTRACT
The palatine tonsils, both in normal conditions and in chronic tonsillitis (CT), can be carriers of a diverse, including pathogenic, flora, which becomes virulent under the influence of various adverse factors of the external and internal environment. Bacteriological studies carried out by CT patients show a wide variety of vegetative flora in the palatine tonsils. However, according to many researchers, the leading microbial agent is group A B-hemolytic streptococcus. Objective. To study the microbial landscape of palatine tonsils in patients with chronic tonsillitis associated with chronic opisthorchiasis and without the latter. Patients and methods. The authors studied the microbial landscape in 106 patients with chronic tonsillitis aged 20 to 55 years who were randomized into 2 groups (the main 56 people with CT associated with chronic opisthorchiasis invasion (COI)) and the control group (50 patients without the presence of the latter). Conclusions. It was established that the microbial landscape of the palatine tonsils in patients with chronic tonsillitis in association with COI is characterized by significant polymorphism with the predominant role of staphylococci and streptococci, with the lacunar microflora being more virulent, while the microflora of the palatine tonsils in patients without COI did not significantly differ from the same as in the control group, but it was less virulent.
Publication date:
06.03.2023
Keywords:
chronic tonsillitis, microbial landscape of palatine tonsils, chronic opisthorchiasis. For citation:
Izvin A. I., Rudzevich A. V. On microbial landscape of palatine tonsils in patients with chronic tonsillitis associated with chronic opisthorchiasis invasion. Russian Otorhinolaryngology. 2023;22(1):30-34. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2023-1-30-34