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

David Nygren; Karl Oldberg; Karin Holm

doi:10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102474

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

Anaerobe. 2022 Feb:73:102474. doi: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102474. Epub 2021 Nov 7.

Authors

David Nygren¹, Karl Oldberg², Karin Holm³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infection Medicine, Department for Clinical Sciences Lund, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of Infection Medicine, Department for Clinical Sciences Lund, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Clinical Microbiology, Labmedicin, Region Skåne, Lund, Sweden.
³ Division of Infection Medicine, Department for Clinical Sciences Lund, Medical Faculty, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

PMID: 34758377
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102474

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).

Keywords: Bacteremia; Endovascular infection; Fusobacterium necrophorum; Lemierre's syndrome; Time-to-positivity.

MeSH terms

Bacteremia* / microbiology
Blood Culture
Fusobacterium Infections* / complications
Fusobacterium Infections* / diagnosis
Fusobacterium Infections* / microbiology
Fusobacterium necrophorum
Humans
Lemierre Syndrome* / complications
Lemierre Syndrome* / diagnosis
Lemierre Syndrome* / drug therapy