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ArticleCureus2023

Descending Necrotizing Mediastinitis by Streptococcus anginosus and Prevotella buccae in an Intensive Care Unit Patient: A Case Report.

Monica R Pachar Flores, Rafael Andrade-Alegre, Erika Santiago, Lizbeth Sierra

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Monica R Pachar FloresInfectious Diseases, Hospital Santo Tomas, Panama, PAN.
Rafael Andrade-AlegreThoracic Surgery Section, Hospital Santo Tomas, Panama, PAN.
Erika SantiagoMicrobiology, Hospital Santo Tomas, Panama, PAN.
Lizbeth SierraIntensive Care Unit, Hospital Santo Tomas, Panama, PAN.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Necrotizing infections of deep neck spaces are a group of life-threatening infectious diseases acquired through trauma or as a descending infection from an odontogenic source. The isolation of pathogens is unusual because of the anaerobic nature of the infection; however, one way to achieve this is through the use of automated microbiological methods like matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization and time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) following standard microbiology protocols for analyzing samples from potential anaerobic infections. We present a case of a patient without risk factors for descending necrotizing mediastinitis with isolation

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anaerobesanaerobes of clinical importancedeep neck space infectiondescending necrotizing mediastinitismediastinitis managementodontogenic infectionsthoracic empyemavideo-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (vats)

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PMID37398802
PMCPMC10309078

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