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A case of liver abscess and fusobacterium septicemia
Fusobacterium species are well described as the causative pathogen in Lemierre’s syndrome, a suppurative thrombophlebitis of the jugular vein. However, they are less recognized for a unique variant of Lemierre’s syndrome presenting with invasive intraabdominal infection and associated portal vein th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5510492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28736715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.06.013 |
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author | Rahmati, Elham She, Rosemary C. Kazmierski, Brittany Geiseler, P. Jan Wong, Darren |
author_facet | Rahmati, Elham She, Rosemary C. Kazmierski, Brittany Geiseler, P. Jan Wong, Darren |
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description | Fusobacterium species are well described as the causative pathogen in Lemierre’s syndrome, a suppurative thrombophlebitis of the jugular vein. However, they are less recognized for a unique variant of Lemierre’s syndrome presenting with invasive intraabdominal infection and associated portal vein thrombosis. We describe a case of Fusobacterium nucleatum with hepatic abscess and septic pylephlebitis. |
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spelling | pubmed-55104922017-07-21 A case of liver abscess and fusobacterium septicemia Rahmati, Elham She, Rosemary C. Kazmierski, Brittany Geiseler, P. Jan Wong, Darren IDCases Case Report Fusobacterium species are well described as the causative pathogen in Lemierre’s syndrome, a suppurative thrombophlebitis of the jugular vein. However, they are less recognized for a unique variant of Lemierre’s syndrome presenting with invasive intraabdominal infection and associated portal vein thrombosis. We describe a case of Fusobacterium nucleatum with hepatic abscess and septic pylephlebitis. Elsevier 2017-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5510492/ /pubmed/28736715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.06.013 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Rahmati, Elham She, Rosemary C. Kazmierski, Brittany Geiseler, P. Jan Wong, Darren A case of liver abscess and fusobacterium septicemia |
title | A case of liver abscess and fusobacterium septicemia |
title_full | A case of liver abscess and fusobacterium septicemia |
title_fullStr | A case of liver abscess and fusobacterium septicemia |
title_full_unstemmed | A case of liver abscess and fusobacterium septicemia |
title_short | A case of liver abscess and fusobacterium septicemia |
title_sort | case of liver abscess and fusobacterium septicemia |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5510492/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28736715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.06.013 |
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