“…Infection is frequently cited in the literature as a complication of teratomata (Heuer and Andrus, 1940;Rusby, 1944;Burnett, Rosemond, and Bucher, 1952;le Roux, 1960;Whittaker and Lynn, 1973) but bacteriological details are rarely given. It may be that some of these cases are not infective but are similar to the cases described.…”