Short blood culture time-to-positivity in Fusobacterium necrophorum bacteremia is associated with Lemierre's syndrome.
Bacteremia
Endovascular infection
Fusobacterium necrophorum
Lemierre's syndrome
Time-to-positivity
Journal
Anaerobe
ISSN: 1095-8274
Titre abrégé: Anaerobe
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9505216
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2022
Feb 2022
Historique:
received:
09
03
2021
revised:
29
09
2021
accepted:
02
11
2021
pubmed:
11
11
2021
medline:
17
3
2022
entrez:
10
11
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The usefulness of blood culture time-to-positivity (TTP) in the diagnosis of endovascular infections has previously been shown. Here, we investigated TTP in 41 patients with F. necrophorum bacteraemia and found an association between short TTP and Lemierre's syndrome (p = 0.026).
Identifiants
pubmed: 34758377
pii: S1075-9964(21)00157-8
doi: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102474
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
102474Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors report no conflicts of interest.