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Disease Ontology : DOID:11337 Lemierre's syndrome Disease Ontology

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Description  A commensal bacterial infectious disease that is characterized by systemic sepsis, ulcerative or necrotic lesions and multisystem abscesses caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum. The disease often first presents as a severe tonsillitis or pharyngitis with high-grade fever and chills together with leukocytosis, cervical pain and neck swelling.

1 Ontology

Name
Disease Ontology

5 Parents

Identifier Name Description
DOID:4 disease A disease is a disposition (i) to undergo pathological processes that (ii) exists in an organism because of one or more disorders in that organism.
DOID:104 bacterial infectious disease A disease by infectious agent that results_in infection, has_material_basis_in Bacteria.
DOID:0050117 disease by infectious agent A disease that is the consequence of the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions.
DOID:0050339 commensal bacterial infectious disease A bacterial infectious disease that results_in infection by bacteria which are part of the normal human flora when one or more of the defense mechanisms designed to restrict them from the usually sterile internal tissues are breached by accident, by intent (surgery), or by an underlying metabolic or an infectious disorder.
DOID:11337 Lemierre's syndrome A commensal bacterial infectious disease that is characterized by systemic sepsis, ulcerative or necrotic lesions and multisystem abscesses caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum. The disease often first presents as a severe tonsillitis or pharyngitis with high-grade fever and chills together with leukocytosis, cervical pain and neck swelling.

4 Relations

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Parent Term . Identifier

Child Term . Identifier
is_a DOID:0050339 DOID:11337
is_a DOID:104 DOID:11337
is_a DOID:4 DOID:11337
is_a DOID:0050117 DOID:11337

4 Synonyms

Name Type
human necrobacillosis synonym
Lemierre syndrome synonym
postanginal sepsis synonym
acute sore throat synonym