An Unusual Organism As A Cause Of Acute Neonatal Suppurative Parotitis

Neonatal suppurative parotitis(NSP) is an uncommon illness .Parotid abscess is uncommon in neonates. It is frequently with, prolonged gavage feeding and dehydration. We report a case of a late preterm infant who developed the classical manifestation of unilateral (right) acute klebsiella spp suppurative parotitis progressing to formation of abscess which responded to antibiotic therapy in the neonate. Here, to the best of our knowledge we describe first case of newborn who developed neonatal supparative parotitis due to Klebsiella bacteria species