Acute suppurative parotitis associated with anaerobic bacteremia.
Most episodes of acute suppurative parotitis are caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Reported here is a patient who had acute parotitis associated with anaerobic sepsis caused by Bacteroides melaninogenicus and Peptostreptococcus micros. Acute parotitis should be included in the ever-widening spectrum of clinical infections caused by anaerobic bacteria.
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001442:Bacteroides Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010309:Parotitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D010462:Peptostreptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001443:Prevotella melaninogenica / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications*