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Oropharyngeal anthrax*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

N. Navacharoen ,
T. Sirisanthana ,
W. Navacharoen  and
K. Ruckphaopunt
N. Navacharoen*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
T. Sirisanthana
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang mai, Thailand.
W. Navacharoen
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang mai, Thailand.
K. Ruckphaopunt
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
*
Niramon Navacharoen, M. D., Department of Otolaryngology, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Abstract

The first bacteriologically confirmed case of oropharyngeal anthrax is described. A 59-year-old male patient presented with sore throat and extensive swelling of the neck and anterior chest wall five hours after the ingestion of uncooked water buffalo meat. Marked inflammation of the oropharynx and a small necrotic area in the left tonsil were found. Culture taken from this area grew Bacillus anthracis. In anthrax-susceptible areas, this acute illness should be added to the differential diagnoses of inflammatory lesion of the oropharynx with extensive neck swelling.

Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 99 , Issue 12 , December 1985 , pp. 1293 - 1295
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1985

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Footnotes

*

Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Otolaryngology Society of Thailand, Bangkok, 25 July 1982.

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