Open AccessAcute neonatal suppurative parotitis: case reports and review
Author(s) -
Ronen Spiegel,
Dan Miron,
Waheeb Sakran,
Yoseph Horovitz
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/01.inf.0000105181.74169.16
Subject(s) - staphylococcus aureus , parotitis , medicine , antibiotics , pediatrics , antibiotic therapy , surgery , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , genetics , bacteria
We describe two cases of neonatal suppurative parotitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Only 32 cases of neonatal suppurative parotitis (72% male) have been described in the English literature in the last 35 years. Thirty-eight percent were premature babies, only 41% were febrile and the causative agent in most cases was S. aureus. Recovery was achieved in 78% of the patients with antibiotic therapy without drainage.