Isolation of respiratory syncytial virus from middle ear exudates of infants.

During an epidemic of respiratory infection due to respiratory syncytial (RS) virus in Turku, Finland, which lasted from the beginning of April to the end of June 1965, the virus was isolated for the first time from the middle ear exudates of two children with otitis media (Berglund and Strahlmann, 1966). This report describes further isolations of RS virus from the ears of several infants with middle ear infection, using improved techniques. A more detailed report of this study has been published elsewhere (Berglund, Salmivalli, and Toivanen, 1966).