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Short blood culture time-to-positivity in Fusobacterium necrophorum bacteremia is associated with Lemierre's syndrome

Nygren, David LU orcid ; Oldberg, Karl LU orcid and Holm, Karin LU (2022) In Anaerobe 73.
Abstract

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).

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Bacteremia, Endovascular infection, Fusobacterium necrophorum, Lemierre's syndrome, Time-to-positivity
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Anaerobe
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73
article number
102474
publisher
Elsevier
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  • scopus:85118828087
  • pmid:34758377
ISSN
1075-9964
DOI
10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102474
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English
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Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors
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  author       = {{Nygren, David and Oldberg, Karl and Holm, Karin}},
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  keywords     = {{Bacteremia; Endovascular infection; Fusobacterium necrophorum; Lemierre's syndrome; Time-to-positivity}},
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  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Anaerobe}},
  title        = {{Short blood culture time-to-positivity in Fusobacterium necrophorum bacteremia is associated with Lemierre's syndrome}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102474}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102474}},
  volume       = {{73}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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