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To the Editor: In their contribution to Images in Clinical Medicine (Dec. 17 issue),¹ Alberio and Lämmle describe a man with odontogenic infection complicated by thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein, sepsis, and metastatic foci of infection. This is an excellent description of postanginal septicemia,² which is usually attributed to infection with Fusobacterium necrophorum.³ Further information is needed to determine whether infection with F. necrophorum was adequately excluded in this case. The authors do not mention whether cultures were studied, and if so, what anatomical sites were sampled. Was the organism identified on morphologic grounds alone? Both F. necrophorum and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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