1. Lemierre's Syndrome Due to the Zoonotic Anaerobe Bacteroides pyogenes: Case Report and Literature Review.
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Goggin, Kathryn P, Beckmann, Nicholas, Bettin, Kristen, Carrillo-Marquez, Maria, Wood, Joshua, and Arnold, Sandra R
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PHYSICAL diagnosis , *SEQUENCE analysis , *NECK pain , *FEVER , *CHEST X rays , *MASTOIDECTOMY , *ZOONOSES , *GRAM-negative anaerobic bacteria , *PETS , *CHOLESTEATOMA , *LEMIERRE syndrome , *GRAM-negative bacterial diseases , *COMPUTED tomography , *NECK , *POLYMERASE chain reaction , *EDEMA , *MICROBIAL sensitivity tests , *DISEASE complications ,TEMPORAL bone radiography - Abstract
Although Fusobacterium necrophorum is well described as an emerging pathogen of acute mastoiditis in young children, infection with other anaerobes can lead to similar severe sequelae including intracranial and extracranial suppurative thrombophlebitis and sepsis. We describe a patient whose unremarkable exposure history assumed increased significance upon obtaining the results of 16S next generation sequencing from a surgical specimen. The novel pathogen Bacteroides pyogenes is reviewed herein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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