BACILLUS PROTEUS SEPTICEMIA ACCOMPANYING ACUTE MASTOIDITIS WITH THROMBOSIS OF THE LATERAL SINUS

1 January 1943

journal article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Otolaryngology (1925)

Vol. 37 (1) , 74-77
https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.1943.00670030081007

Abstract

That certain species of Bacillus proteus are pathogenic to man has gradually been proved. Infections with this organism frequently accompany urologic conditions and summer diarrhea of children. Such infections, always associated with other organisms, occur in other parts of the body. If looked for the bacillus would probably be observed more frequently in infections of the throat, nose and ear. Reports in the literature are gradually accumulating to show that the cases of B. proteus septicemia associated with acute otitis media, acute mastoiditis and peritonsillar abscess, with consequent venous thrombosis and septicemia, carry a high mortality.¹In 1935 Smith and Miller²reported a case of thrombosis of the lateral sinus caused by B. proteus. Positive cultures of material from the lateral sinus and the blood were obtained. The history was that of chronic otitis media complicated by thrombosis of the lateral sinus and septicemia. More recently McGovern,³Valle and Giroux,⁴

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