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Lemierre’s syndrome: a rare cause of sepsis presenting with an absence of throat symptoms

A 16-year-old boy presented to hospital with a 6-day history of diarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal pain. During his admission he was found to be hypotensive, tachycardic and persistently feverish. Blood cultures taken on admission isolated Fusobacterium necrophorum. CT scanning of his neck showed a n...

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Publicado en:BMJ Case Rep
Main Authors: Whittle, Thomas, Amiraraghi, Natasha, Sarkar, Bappa
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5931270/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29705735
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-224151
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