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Ear infections are the bane of many small children and their families.
The painful and recurring ailments often require repeated doses of antibiotics, a concern at a time when the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria poses a real threat to public health. Now a Swedish research team has come up with an intriguing way to fight the bacteria that cause ear infections . Good bacteria, to be precise. The body is a huge cauldron of millions of bacteria, good and bad. When a person is healthy, that mix, called the flora, is in balance.