Lemierre’s syndrome: A case report of an infant with Acute Suppurative Otitis Media and Poly-microbial infection with Leuconostic Citreum and Acinatobacter Baumannii

Abstract

Lemierre’s syndrome is quite a rare condition characterized by septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein

as a complication of head and neck infection, and septic embolization to other organs. The most common

etiological agent is Fusobacterium necrophorum. It is very rarely reported in infants or secondary to Acute

Suppurative Otitis Media (ASOM) or secondary to bacteria other than Fusobactrium Necrophorum. Here, we report

rare findings of a rare disease, in the case of a 6month old female child who developed Lemierre’s syndrome as a

complication of ASOM and her blood culture grew Acinatobacter baumannii and Leuconostic citreum. By the time

of this study, very few cases of invasive infection in humans due to Leuconostic citreum have been reported.