PEDIATRICS Vol. 62 No. 6 December 1978, pp. 1019-1020
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Acute Suppurative Parotitis Caused by Anaerobic Bacteria: Report of Two Cases

I. Brook M. D.1 and S. M. Finegold M.D.1

1 Fairview State Hospital and the university of California School of medicine. Irrine; and Wadsworth Hospital Center, Vetcrans Administration and the University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles

Staphylococcus aureus is the predominant pathogen in acute suppurative parotitis. Although anaerobic bacteria are prevalent in the normal oral and upper respiratory tract flora and frequently are involved in oral and facial infections, they have seldom been isolated from patients with suppurative parotitis. It may be that a role for anaerobes in parotitis has not been documented because of inadequate specimen transport or anaerobic culture techniques. We describe two cases of acute suppurative parotitis in which cultures yielded anaerobic bacteria. In one case, no aerobes were isolated; in the other, the anaerobe was the predominant organism numerically.

Submitted on September 16, 1977
Accepted on March 31, 1978




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