A Case of Disseminated Infection due to Actinomyces meyeri Involving Lung and Brain

Actinomyces meyeri is rarely isolated in cases of actinomycosis. The identification of A. meyeri had historically been difficult and unreliable. With the recent development of 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) sequencing, Actinomyces species such as A. meyeri can be isolated much more reliably. A. meyeri...

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Autores principales: Park, Hyun Jung, Park, Ki-Ho, Kim, Sung-Han, Sung, Heungsup, Choi, Sang-Ho, Kim, Yang Soo, Woo, Jun Hee, Lee, Sang-Oh
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25566409
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2014.46.4.269
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author Park, Hyun Jung
Park, Ki-Ho
Kim, Sung-Han
Sung, Heungsup
Choi, Sang-Ho
Kim, Yang Soo
Woo, Jun Hee
Lee, Sang-Oh
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description Actinomyces meyeri is rarely isolated in cases of actinomycosis. The identification of A. meyeri had historically been difficult and unreliable. With the recent development of 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) sequencing, Actinomyces species such as A. meyeri can be isolated much more reliably. A. meyeri often causes disseminated disease, which can be secondary to frequent pulmonary infections. A penicillin-based regimen is the mainstay of A. meyeri treatment, with a prolonged course usually required. Here, we report a case of pulmonary actinomycosis with brain abscess caused by A. meyeri that was initially thought to represent lung cancer with brain metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-42850032015-01-06 A Case of Disseminated Infection due to Actinomyces meyeri Involving Lung and Brain Park, Hyun Jung Park, Ki-Ho Kim, Sung-Han Sung, Heungsup Choi, Sang-Ho Kim, Yang Soo Woo, Jun Hee Lee, Sang-Oh Infect Chemother Case Report Actinomyces meyeri is rarely isolated in cases of actinomycosis. The identification of A. meyeri had historically been difficult and unreliable. With the recent development of 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) sequencing, Actinomyces species such as A. meyeri can be isolated much more reliably. A. meyeri often causes disseminated disease, which can be secondary to frequent pulmonary infections. A penicillin-based regimen is the mainstay of A. meyeri treatment, with a prolonged course usually required. Here, we report a case of pulmonary actinomycosis with brain abscess caused by A. meyeri that was initially thought to represent lung cancer with brain metastasis. The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2014-12 2014-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4285003/ /pubmed/25566409 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2014.46.4.269 Text en Copyright © 2014 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short A Case of Disseminated Infection due to Actinomyces meyeri Involving Lung and Brain
title_sort case of disseminated infection due to actinomyces meyeri involving lung and brain
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25566409
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2014.46.4.269
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