MRSA-Associated Lemierre's Syndrome in an Intravenous Drug User

J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Dec;30(12):1886-7. doi: 10.1007/s11606-015-3259-9. Epub 2015 Mar 5.

Authors

Trilokesh D Kidambi¹, Christopher Lee², R Jeffrey Kohlwes^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room 987, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA. Trilokesh.Kidambi@ucsf.edu.
² Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), 505 Parnassus Avenue, Room 987, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA.
³ Division of General Internal Medicine, Veterans Affair Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: IV drug use; Lemierre’s syndrome; MRSA; neck abscess.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
Lemierre Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
Lemierre Syndrome / microbiology*
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus*
Staphylococcal Infections / complications*
Substance Abuse, Intravenous / complications*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Young Adult