Open AccessMicrobiological profile of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria and its clinical significance in antibiotic sensitivity of odontogenic space infection: A prospective study of 5 years
Author(s) -
Hemavathi Umeshappa,
Akshay Shetty,
Kiran Kavatagi,
G. K. Vivek,
N. Vaibhav,
Mohd Imran
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
national journal of maxillofacial surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2229-3418
pISSN - 0975-5950
DOI - 10.4103/njms.njms_1_20
Subject(s) - peptostreptococcus , medicine , obligate anaerobe , anaerobic bacteria , antibiotics , odontogenic infection , microbiology and biotechnology , amoxicillin , antimicrobial , metronidazole , oral microbiology , flora (microbiology) , antibiotic sensitivity , clindamycin , anaerobic exercise , biology , bacteria , odontogenic , pathology , physiology , genetics
Odontogenic infections are mixed aerobic-anaerobic microbial flora. Infections caused by anaerobic bacteria are serious and life-threatening. The microbial specificity in odontogenic infections is technique sensitive depending on the sampling and culturing of specimens.