I don't think this is news to anybody, but ... if you're posting on
this newsgroup ... this probably doesn't apply to you.

Chronic sinusitis ... from my understanding ... is a whole different
animal.  One way to GET from an occasional infection TO a full-time
problem is to let infections go untreated for prolonged periods of
time.

If we don't drain, for example, because of a viral sinus infection,
then we're all too likely to GET a bacterial sinus infection.  They
prevent this with antibiotics.  WE try to head it off with steam,
decongestants, etc., etc.

For the record, I think I've 'beaten' maybe TWO in my life without
antibiotics, and--arguably--they've simply gone deeper into me,
exacerbating the problems I now have....

Did the docs who did the study do any direct examination of mucus for
microbiota?, make any attempt to use nRNA, or PCR?
Would these guys know an AODC from a DVCs or what either is other than
patterns in their alphabet soup?
Do they have any factual basis for their sweeping assertions?

Or do we have more pronouncements from the technically challanged "if
the lab didn't culture it in 3 days it ain't there" camp.

Grok these:

http://cmr.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/10/2/320

http://centerforgenomicsciences.org/research/biofilm.html

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1351326

Metagenomics: exploreing the phylogeny and biochemistry of
nonculturable bacteria.
http://www.biochem.umd.edu/biochem/kahn/teach_res/Posters/Metagenomics.ppt
(this one from U. Maryand takes roughly forever to come up, but it is
worth it)

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2858014

http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/reprint/42/2/753.pdf

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=9781555811969&site=1

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=47091

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery ... -
7:11pmThe biofilm paradigm of disease has not only shed light on the
pathogenesis of chronic otitis media, chronic tonsillitis,
cholesteatoma, and device-related ...
www.co-otolaryngology.com/pt/re/cooto/fulltext.00020840-200406000-00007.htm;jses
sionid=F24Sch6zh7HQTy1Slv...
- Similar pages

http://www.asm.org/microbe/index.asp?bid=42390

"Fulfilling Koch's Postulates Can Still Prove Challenging

Countless numbers and types of bacteria cannot be cultured with
currently available techniques and media. Some of these nonculturable
bacteria are considered dormant, and sometimes are called
"somnicells." Somnicells (sleeping cells) include those bacteria that,
when stressed, become dormant and cannot be cultured on available
media.

Some bacteria are more prone than others to enter into this "growth
stage" or survival strategy, including human pathogens such as
Legionella pneumophila, Vibrio cholerae, and Helicobacter pylori.
Sometimes pathogens are isolated from an infected tissue only to be
"lost" during successive culture attempts. This phenomenon is
responsible for many of the difficulties

in culturing these and other etiological agents.

Not-yet-cultured microbes likely constitute 99% of the microbes
thought to exist in the biosphere. L. pneumophila was in this category
before the 1980s. Other yet-to-be-cultured, disease-causing microbes
are Treponema pallidum, which  causes syphilis, and Mycobacterium
leprae, which is responsible for leprosy, also known as Hansen's
disease.  "