Nine Cases of Methanogenic Archaea in Refractory Sinusitis, an Emerging Clinical Entity

• Main Authors: Elisabeth Sogodogo (Author), Mustapha Fellag (Author), Ahmed Loukil (Author), Vanessa Demonfort Nkamga (Author), Justin Michel (Author), Patrick Dessi (Author), Pierre-Edouard Fournier (Author), Michel Drancourt (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

The authors report the cases of 9 patients eventually diagnosed with methanogenic archaea refractory or recalcitrant chronic rhinosinusitis, a condition known to involve various anaerobic bacteria but in which the role of methanogenic archaea is unknown. The authors retrospectively searched these mi...