American Society for Microbiology, Microbiology Spectrum, 2(10), 2022
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02407-21
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Polymicrobial brain abscess is a challenge to the clinical microbiology laboratory due to the aggregative nature of the dental and oral microbiota. Because polymicrobial infections may escape detection by conventional culture methods, directed therapy toward a single detected bacterium is problematic.