Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report
Anaerobic bacteria are the predominant normal flora of the mucous membranes which may cause life-threatening disseminated infections and are often difficult to culture from infected sites. Eggerthella (previously known as Eubacteria species) is an anaerobic, nonsporulating, nonmotile, Gram-positive...
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| author | Ahmad Salameh Stephen A. Klotz Tirdad T. Zangeneh |
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| description | Anaerobic bacteria are the predominant normal flora of the mucous membranes which may cause life-threatening disseminated infections and are often difficult to culture from infected sites. Eggerthella (previously known as Eubacteria species) is an anaerobic, nonsporulating, nonmotile, Gram-positive rod that is found in the human colon and feces and has been isolated from various other clinical specimens. We report a case of complicated disseminated anaerobic bacterial infection with Eggerthella lenta in a healthy immunocompetent man causing multiple brain abscesses, liver abscesses, necrotizing pneumonia, and osteomyelitis of the left radial bone. He was successfully treated with empiric penicillin G and metronidazole. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bf78e071344948be9c8d4aef850b58c02024-11-02T05:31:59ZengHindawi LimitedCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332012-01-01201210.1155/2012/517637517637Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case ReportAhmad Salameh0Stephen A. Klotz1Tirdad T. Zangeneh2Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona Medical Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USADivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona Medical Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USADivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona Medical Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USAAnaerobic bacteria are the predominant normal flora of the mucous membranes which may cause life-threatening disseminated infections and are often difficult to culture from infected sites. Eggerthella (previously known as Eubacteria species) is an anaerobic, nonsporulating, nonmotile, Gram-positive rod that is found in the human colon and feces and has been isolated from various other clinical specimens. We report a case of complicated disseminated anaerobic bacterial infection with Eggerthella lenta in a healthy immunocompetent man causing multiple brain abscesses, liver abscesses, necrotizing pneumonia, and osteomyelitis of the left radial bone. He was successfully treated with empiric penicillin G and metronidazole.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/517637 |
| spellingShingle | Ahmad Salameh Stephen A. Klotz Tirdad T. Zangeneh Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report |
| title_full | Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report |
| title_fullStr | Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report |
| title_short | Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report |
| title_sort | disseminated infection caused by eggerthella lenta in a previously healthy young man a case report |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/517637 |
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