Lemierre syndrome: a rare complication of pharyngotonsillitis.

emierre’s syndrome consists of a pharyngeal infection assoiated with septicemia and internal jugular thrombosis with eptic emboli. This condition was described in 1936 by ndre Lemierre.1,2 It was initially named as post-anginal epticemia, and then, ‘‘forgotten disease’’, by becoming rare condition after the advent of antibiotics, with fewer han 100 cases reported since 1974.2 Lamierre’s syndrome as also been named necrobacillosis, due to the presence f Fusobacterium necrophorum, a commensal bacteria from ral cavity which is considered the most common causative gent of the disease. Bacteroides, Streptococcus group B nd C, Streptococcus oralis, Staphylococcus epidermitis, nterococcus and Proteus mirabilis may also be involved.3