Postanginal Sepsis Following Infectious Mononucleosis

Fusobacterium necrophorum and other Fusobacterium spp. isolated from head and neck infections: A 10-year epidemiology study in an academic hospital

“…Moreover, an association between F. necrophorum and clinical symptoms in the majority of the head and neck infection cases after excluding other throat pathogens was shown. Yet, we could not investigate the suggestion that F. necrophorum infection is facilitated by a putative higher grade pathogen such as Epstein-Barr virus (14) due to limited number of data. In this study, 241 patients with acute tonsillitis/ peritonsillar abscess and 7 patients with otitis with F. necrophorum were found in 3 years (6).…”

Prevotella bivia necrobacillosis following infectious mononucleosis

“…Serological evidence of infectious mononucleosis was demonstrated in three subsequent patients who presented with Fusobacterium species sepsis in a single hospital over a five year period. 11 Bilateral anaerobic empyema complicating EBV infection has also been reported; the anaerobes involved were Peptostreptococcus and Bacteroides species, 12 and F. necrophorum. 13 Patients affected are in their second or third decade.…”

Postanginal sepsis

“…There are numerous secondary sites of infection other than the lung, including virtually all the viscera, brain, and bone. 2 The clinical presentation of postanginal sepsis was well described by Lemierre. 3 Customarily, as with this patient.…”