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No. (%)
10 (24) 3 (16) 7 (32)
Any surgical procedure, No. (%) 29 (71) 11 (58) 18 (82) 0.18
Drainage only, No. (%) 12 (29) 4 (21) 8 (36) 0.22
Fever after presentation was not associated with receipt of antibiotics before admission.
Includes 1 postseptal phlegmon that was not a frank abscess. Eight cases also had subperiosteal abscesses.
3 2
Group C -hemolytic streptococci* 2 2
Eikenella corrodens* 2 2
Arcanobacterium hemolyticum*
1
Moraxella catarrhalis* 1 1
Anaerobes
Peptostreptococcus* 4 3
Bacteroides species* 2 2
Fusobacterium necrophorum*
1
Anaerobic bacterium, unspecified* 1
*One or more isolates were from 1 or more of 7 children with polymicrobial culture results.
One was H. influenzae type b from a sinus culture (isolated in 1993 from a 16-mo-old).