Table 1.

Common aerobic and anaerobic bacterial genera isolated from 50 infected dog bite wounds^a

Bacterial genus	Frequency (%)
Aerobic organisms
Pasteurella	50
Streptococcus	46
Staphylococcus	46
Neisseriab	32
Corynebacterium	12
Moraxella	10
Enterococcus	10
Bacillus	8
Anaerobic organisms
Fusobacterium	32
Porphyromonas	28
Prevotella	28
Propionibacterium	20
Bacteroidesb	18
Peptostreptococcus	16

^aBased on data from reference 206.

^bThe frequencies differ from the actual numbers cited in the reference due to the reclassification of some of the isolates since its publication.