reported two children with
recurrent episodes of acute ST. Anaerobic Gram
negative bacilli and Peptostreptococcus spp. were
recovered from these patients’ infected thyroid
gland. E. corrodens and Actinomyces spp. were
also been reported in several of these studies
[2,11,12]. Polymicrobial infection (2/5 organisms
per abscess) was present in about 30% of the
patients [13].