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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 624065, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/624065
Case Report

Lemierre’s Syndrome: Rare, but Life Threatening—A Case Report with Streptococcus intermedius

Shalini Gupta1 and Shehzad S. Merchant2

1Department of Internal Medicine, Oregon Health Science University, P.O. Box BTE 119, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239, USA
2Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine, Buffalo General Hospital, University at Buffalo, 100 High Street, B-8, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA

Received 15 August 2012; Accepted 1 October 2012

Academic Editor: Anthony W. Chow

Copyright © 2012 Shalini Gupta and Shehzad S. Merchant. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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