Animal model for anaerobic lung abscess

Anaerobic axillary abscess.

Fifty-two patients with axillary abscesses were seen during two years. Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from 34, anaerobic bacteria from 12, and skin flora from five; in one case the pus was sterile. Seven patients with hidradenitis suppurativa had recurrent infection with abscess formation, which was bilateral in three. Anaerobes were isolated in five of these cases and skin flora alone in t...

Anaerobic brain abscess

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Brain abscess remains a potentially fatal central nervous system (CNS) disease, especially in developing countries. Anaerobic abscess is difficult to diagnose because of cumbersome procedures associated with the isolation of anaerobes. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a hospital-based retrospective microbiological analysis of 430 brain abscess materials (purulent aspira...

anaerobic brain abscess

background: brain abscess remains a potentially fatal central nervous system (cns) disease, especially in developing countries. anaerobic abscess is difficult to diagnose because of cumbersome procedures associated with the isolation of anaerobes. materials and methods: this is a hospital-based retrospective microbiological analysis of 430 brain abscess materials (purulent aspirates and/or tiss...

Lung Abscess

Introduction.?There are many points in the aetiology and treatment of lung abscess that are still not fully understood. Hence, the writer decided to.study the records of the cases of lung abscess admitted and treated at the Kin? Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Parel. The material consists of fifty consecutive clinic*1' cases of lung abscess. Hippocrates thought that lung abscess was caused by inh...

Lung Abscess