[The clinico-laboratory characteristics of the forms of suppurative infection in dental patients].

Odontogenic anaerobic sepsis was diagnosed using vapor-phase gas chromatographic analysis (VPGCA) for detecting volatile fatty acids--metabolites of anaerobic bacteria. The method is rapid and therefore diagnostically valuable. Rapid diagnosis of anaerobic odontogenic sepsis is to include detection of the clinical signs of anaerobic inflammation of the primary purulent focus and the clinical laboratory symptom complex of generalized infection and VPGCA of volatile fatty acids in the blood.