Fournier’s Gangrene with Growth of Actinomyces europaeus: A Case Report

Fournier’s gangrene (FG) is a rare infectious disease with rapid disease progression and a high mortality rate. We report a case of a 61-year-old female with type 2 diabetes who developed FG caused by Actinomyces europaeus. A. europaeus is associated with abscesses, decubitus ulcers, and purulent ur...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Shurong, Xie, Yunkai, Wang, Yanqiu, Jin, Guoyu, Cui, Rongtao, Zou, Yonghui
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Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10017900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36821033
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40121-023-00781-6
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author Zhang, Shurong
Xie, Yunkai
Wang, Yanqiu
Jin, Guoyu
Cui, Rongtao
Zou, Yonghui
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description Fournier’s gangrene (FG) is a rare infectious disease with rapid disease progression and a high mortality rate. We report a case of a 61-year-old female with type 2 diabetes who developed FG caused by Actinomyces europaeus. A. europaeus is associated with abscesses, decubitus ulcers, and purulent urethritis. Although A. europaeus rarely causes FG as the main causative pathogen, we should still be alert to this pathogenic microorganism. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of FG caused by A. europaeus mono-infection, and it adds to the evidence that A. europaeus has the potential to cause necrotizing fasciitis.
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spelling pubmed-100179002023-03-17 Fournier’s Gangrene with Growth of Actinomyces europaeus: A Case Report Zhang, Shurong Xie, Yunkai Wang, Yanqiu Jin, Guoyu Cui, Rongtao Zou, Yonghui Infect Dis Ther Case Report Fournier’s gangrene (FG) is a rare infectious disease with rapid disease progression and a high mortality rate. We report a case of a 61-year-old female with type 2 diabetes who developed FG caused by Actinomyces europaeus. A. europaeus is associated with abscesses, decubitus ulcers, and purulent urethritis. Although A. europaeus rarely causes FG as the main causative pathogen, we should still be alert to this pathogenic microorganism. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of FG caused by A. europaeus mono-infection, and it adds to the evidence that A. europaeus has the potential to cause necrotizing fasciitis. Springer Healthcare 2023-02-23 2023-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10017900/ /pubmed/36821033 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40121-023-00781-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Fournier’s Gangrene with Growth of Actinomyces europaeus: A Case Report
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