Lemierre's syndrome due to community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and presenting with orbital cellulitis: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Lemierre's syndrome is septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein leading to metastatic septic complications following an oropharyngeal infection. It is usually caused by the anaerobe, Fusobacterium necrophorum. Of late, meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is incr...

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Autores principales: Kadhiravan, Tamilarasu, Piramanayagam, Paramasivan, Banga, Amit, Gupta, Rajiva, Sharma, Surendra K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19063718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-374

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19063718
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-374

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