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Reminder of important clinical lesson
CASE REPORT
Lemierre’s syndrome and 2016 American College of Physician guidelines for pharyngitis: no to empiric coverage for bacterial pharyngitis. While no role for routine Fusobacterium PCR, keep suspicion for this pathogen

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  1. Correspondence to Dr Michael Saul Lundin, michael.lundin{at}hc.msu.edu
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Lundin MS, Bastakoti S, Havlichek D, et al
Lemierre’s syndrome and 2016 American College of Physician guidelines for pharyngitis: no to empiric coverage for bacterial pharyngitis. While no role for routine Fusobacterium PCR, keep suspicion for this pathogen
Case Reports 2018;2018:bcr-2018-225149.

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  • Accepted June 22, 2018
  • First published July 19, 2018.
Online issue publication 
August 07, 2018

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