| In such outbreaks, pneumococcal infections have included sepsis, meningitis, purulent conjunctivitis, recurrent otitis media and sinusitis. |
| A two-year-old child with acute tonsillitis and otitis media had been infected by his babysitter. |
| The classic findings of acute otitis media, such as fever and earache, are sometimes absent even in cases confirmed by tympanocentesis. |
| But these same kind of bacteria, pneumococcal bacteria, also help cause ear infections, or otitis media. |
| Pneumatic otoscopy and tympanometry are useful diagnostic tools for managing otitis media with effusion. |
| In addition, otitis from all of these diseases, excluding acne, will respond to low-dose therapy with topical steroid solutions. |
