A 32-year-old man from rural India presents with a 15-year history of chronic ear discharge and conductive hearing loss. Otoscopy reveals a large perforation of the tympanic membrane with mucopurulent discharge. Culture of the discharge grows Pseudomonas aeruginosa. What is the most common bacterial organism isolated in chronic suppurative otitis media with unsafe (atticoantral) disease?

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