At an isolated weather station in the central United States, a technician emerges from a small brick shed grasping a balloon. It's not just any birthday party balloon, mind you, but a massive, white sphere more than 5 feet (1.5 meters) in diameter.
Most frequently, the lung abscess arises as a complication of aspiration pneumonia caused by mouth anaerobes. The patients who develop lung abscess are predisposed to aspiration and commonly have periodontal disease.
an abscess or boil is caused by a bacterial infection in the soft tissues the typical organisms involved are staph and strep species as the infection moves from the superficial tissues to deeper tissues the bacteria break down tissue which leads to collections of pus