[Anaerobic bacteria from microbial foci in acute odontogenic inflammatory diseases]

Mixed microbial associations from purulent foci of 30 patients with odontogenic inflammatory diseases were studied. 18 specimens of the clinical material were subjected to three-fold investigation. Bacteroids, propionic bacteria and pentococci predominated in the mixed cultures. Nonpathogenic Neisseria, streptococci of the mitis-salivarius group and epidermal staphylococci were isolated from the facultative anaerobic flora. The anaerobic species were the most sensitive to the antibiotics used in the treatment of the patients.