Prevotella intermediaLemierre

Bahadir Simsek1, Renee Zhang2, Christopher Morton2

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA bahadirsimsekk@gmail.com.

BMJ case reports
|March 15, 2024
PubMed
概括

莱米埃氏综合征通常是由Fusobacterium necrophorum引起的,很少可能来自Prevotella intermedia. 这一案例突出显示,尽管对这种罕见的感染进行了适当的抗菌药物治疗,但恢复时间很长.

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