Closing the Brief Case: Retropharyngeal Abscess in a 14-Year-Old Caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum

J Clin Microbiol. 2018 Nov 27;56(12):e00488-18. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00488-18. Print 2018 Dec.

Authors

Tam T Van^#¹, Samia N Naccache^#², Jennifer Dien Bard^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
² Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
³ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA [email protected].
⁴ Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: Fusobacterium; abscess; culture; pediatric; pharyngeal.

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MeSH terms

Adolescent
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Fusobacterium Infections*
Fusobacterium necrophorum
Humans
Retropharyngeal Abscess*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents