A newly published case report describes a 10-year-old girl whose double vision and difficulty swallowing revealed Gradenigo ...

Chinese clinicians report the first documented case of a soft-tissue abscess beside the ear caused by the rare anaerobic bacterium Peptoniphilus harei, identified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and ...

A Connecticut man's ear infection allegedly progressed to a bone infection and brain abscess, highlighting how routine infections can occasionally become life-threatening when symptoms worsen or ...

An abscess occurs when an infection causes a pocket of pus to develop. Abscesses can develop on the skin, in the mouth, or inside the body. Bacterial infections typically cause abscesses. Pus develops ...