Some individual camels were also found to have more than one genomic variant in their nasopharynx.
Palatopharyngeal incompetence broadly refers to a muscular inability to sufficiently close the port between the nasopharynx and oropharynx during speech and/or swallowing.
It exists as normal flora (nonpathogenic) in the nasopharynx of up to 515% of adults.
It is strictly a commensal species of the nasopharynx.
Some viral replication of an echovirus occurs in the nasopharynx after infection and then spreads to regional lymph nodes.
The eustachian tube joins the tympanic cavity with the nasal cavity (nasopharynx), allowing pressure to equalize between the middle ear and throat.
The eustachian tubes, which connect the middle ear to the pharynx, open into the nasopharynx.
By reflux or aspiration of unwanted secretions from the nasopharynx into the normally sterile middle-ear space, the fluid may then become infected - usually with bacteria.
