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Acute Sinusitis
Use of Cultures
• Routine culture of nasal secretions not
useful
• Poor correlation between non-directed nasal
or nasopharyngeal culture isolates & sinus
aspirate cultures
• Sinus aspirate cultures useful only for
protracted or nonresponsive sinusitis
• Require endoscopy or needle puncture of sinus
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