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Fusobacterium necrophorum infection associated with portal vein thrombosis.

Redford MR, Ellis R, Rees CJ

Department of Medicine, South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, South Tyneside District Hospital, Harton Lane, South Shields, Tyne and Wear NE34 0PL, UK.

This report describes a patient without obvious upper respiratory tract or gastrointestinal infection who developed portal vein thrombosis secondary to Fusobacterium necrophorum septicaemia. The patient responded well to systemic antibiotic therapy. The implications of F. necrophorum infection caudal to the head are discussed.

Published 13 September 2005 in J Med Microbiol, 54: 993-5.
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