Lemierre syndrome
Findings
No curated finding names Lemierre syndrome yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Lemierre syndrome is a rare, potentially lethal, oropharyngeal infectious disease occurring in immunocompetent adolescents and young adults that is mainly due to Fusobacterium necrophorum and that is characterized by septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein that leads to septic, usually pulmonary, embolism, associated with ENT (ear, nose, and throat) infection that manifests with fever, neck pain, and tonsillopharyngitis.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0015306), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
2 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, hp/releases/2026-09-01.
- Increased total leukocyte countMondoHP:0001974
- Recurrent tonsillitisMondoHP:0011110
Where it sits
Other names
3 names
Resolves to: Lemierre syndrome
- Also called
- Lemierre postanginal sepsispostanginal sepsis secondary to orophyngeal infectionseptic phlebitis of the internal jugular vein