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Suppurative parotitis caused by anaerobic bacteria in newborns
1Department of Pediatrics, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA. IB6@GEORGETOWN.EDU
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|January 16, 2002
Abstract:
Staphylococci are the usual bacterial etiology of suppurative parotitis in newborns. This report describes for the first time recovery of anaerobic bacteria from aspirates of the infected gland in two infants with suppurative parotitis. Peptostreptococcus intermedius and Prevotella melaninogenica were isolated from one child and Prevotella intermedia from the other patient. Complete recovery occurred after 4 weeks of antimicrobial therapy.