Liver and brain abscess caused by Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus in association with a large patent foramen ovale: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus (former name Haemophilus paraphrophilus) is a normal commensal of the oral flora. It is a rare cause of hepatobiliary or intracerebral abscesses. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 53-year-old Caucasian man with a liver abscess and subsequent brain...

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Autores principales: Ariyaratnam, Shaumya, Gajendragadkar, Parag R, Dickinson, Richard J, Roberts, Phil, Harris, Kathryn, Carmichael, Andrew, Karas, Johannis A
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-69
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author Ariyaratnam, Shaumya
Gajendragadkar, Parag R
Dickinson, Richard J
Roberts, Phil
Harris, Kathryn
Carmichael, Andrew
Karas, Johannis A
author_facet Ariyaratnam, Shaumya
Gajendragadkar, Parag R
Dickinson, Richard J
Roberts, Phil
Harris, Kathryn
Carmichael, Andrew
Karas, Johannis A
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description INTRODUCTION: Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus (former name Haemophilus paraphrophilus) is a normal commensal of the oral flora. It is a rare cause of hepatobiliary or intracerebral abscesses. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 53-year-old Caucasian man with a liver abscess and subsequent brain abscesses caused by Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus. The probable source of the infection was the oral flora of our patient following ingestion of a dental filling. The presence of a large patent foramen ovale was a predisposing factor for multifocal abscesses. CONCLUSION: In this case report, we describe an unusual case of a patient with both liver and brain abscesses caused by an oral commensal Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus that can occasionally show significant pathogenic potential.
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spelling pubmed-28451422010-03-26 Liver and brain abscess caused by Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus in association with a large patent foramen ovale: a case report Ariyaratnam, Shaumya Gajendragadkar, Parag R Dickinson, Richard J Roberts, Phil Harris, Kathryn Carmichael, Andrew Karas, Johannis A J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus (former name Haemophilus paraphrophilus) is a normal commensal of the oral flora. It is a rare cause of hepatobiliary or intracerebral abscesses. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 53-year-old Caucasian man with a liver abscess and subsequent brain abscesses caused by Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus. The probable source of the infection was the oral flora of our patient following ingestion of a dental filling. The presence of a large patent foramen ovale was a predisposing factor for multifocal abscesses. CONCLUSION: In this case report, we describe an unusual case of a patient with both liver and brain abscesses caused by an oral commensal Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus that can occasionally show significant pathogenic potential. BioMed Central 2010-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2845142/ /pubmed/20181252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-69 Text en Copyright ©2010 Ariyaratnam et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Ariyaratnam, Shaumya
Gajendragadkar, Parag R
Dickinson, Richard J
Roberts, Phil
Harris, Kathryn
Carmichael, Andrew
Karas, Johannis A
Liver and brain abscess caused by Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus in association with a large patent foramen ovale: a case report
title Liver and brain abscess caused by Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus in association with a large patent foramen ovale: a case report
title_full Liver and brain abscess caused by Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus in association with a large patent foramen ovale: a case report
title_fullStr Liver and brain abscess caused by Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus in association with a large patent foramen ovale: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Liver and brain abscess caused by Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus in association with a large patent foramen ovale: a case report
title_short Liver and brain abscess caused by Aggregatibacter paraphrophilus in association with a large patent foramen ovale: a case report
title_sort liver and brain abscess caused by aggregatibacter paraphrophilus in association with a large patent foramen ovale: a case report
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20181252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-69
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