Table 6.

Microbiological findings in 26 patients with peritonsillar abscess (PTA) and Lemierre´s syndrome

	Culture site
Bacteria	PTA (n = 5)	Blood (n = 18)	Liver abscess (n = 1)	Unknown (n = 3)
Aerobes
Alpha-hemolytic streptococci	1
Viridans group streptococci		1		1
Staphylococcus aureus	1	1
Coagulase-negative staphylococci	1
Arcanobacterium haemolyticum		1
Pseudomonas aeruginosa				1
Neisseria spp.				1
Anaerobes
Fusobacterium necrophorum	1	14	1
Fusobacterium nucleatum	1	1
Prevotella spp.	2
Porphyromonas spp.	1	1
Bacteroides spp.				1
Peptostreptococcus spp.				1
Peptoniphilus asaccharolyticus		1

The names of the following bacteria are merged

Viridans group streptococci: milleri group (n = 1) and Streptococcus constellatus (n = 1)

Spp species