Human enterovirus and rhinovirus infections are associated with otitis media in a prospective birth cohort study

: Seppälä E, Sillanpää S, Nurminen N, Huhtala H, Toppari J, Ilonen J, Veijola R, Knip M, Sipilä M, Laranne J, Oikarinen S, Hyöty H.

: 2016

Journal of Clinical Virology

: 27780081

: 85

: 1

: 6

: 1386-6532

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcv.2016.10.010

HRV and HEV infections are frequent during the first months of life. The observed trend for increased risk of AOM in HRV and HEV positive children is in line with the results from hospital series suggesting that these viruses may play an independent role in the pathogenesis of AOM.

Acute otitis media