Insidious manifestation of pyogenic liver abscess caused by Streptococcus intermedius and Micrococcus luteus: a case report

Pyogenic liver abscesses are caused by various microorganisms and usually present with fever, abdominal pain, leukocytosis and liver enzyme abnormalities. This case presents the insidious manifestation of a pyogenic liver abscess in a 34-year-old immunocompetent male, where classical manifestations...

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Autores principales: Ioannou, Antreas, Xenophontos, Eleni, Karatsi, Alexandra, Petrides, Christos, Kleridou, Maro, Zintilis, Chrysostomos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26770811
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv071
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author Ioannou, Antreas
Xenophontos, Eleni
Karatsi, Alexandra
Petrides, Christos
Kleridou, Maro
Zintilis, Chrysostomos
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description Pyogenic liver abscesses are caused by various microorganisms and usually present with fever, abdominal pain, leukocytosis and liver enzyme abnormalities. This case presents the insidious manifestation of a pyogenic liver abscess in a 34-year-old immunocompetent male, where classical manifestations of a liver abscess were absent. The microorganisms cultured from the abscess belonged to oral cavity's and gastrointestinal tract's normal flora.
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spelling pubmed-47111822016-01-14 Insidious manifestation of pyogenic liver abscess caused by Streptococcus intermedius and Micrococcus luteus: a case report Ioannou, Antreas Xenophontos, Eleni Karatsi, Alexandra Petrides, Christos Kleridou, Maro Zintilis, Chrysostomos Oxf Med Case Reports Case Reports Pyogenic liver abscesses are caused by various microorganisms and usually present with fever, abdominal pain, leukocytosis and liver enzyme abnormalities. This case presents the insidious manifestation of a pyogenic liver abscess in a 34-year-old immunocompetent male, where classical manifestations of a liver abscess were absent. The microorganisms cultured from the abscess belonged to oral cavity's and gastrointestinal tract's normal flora. Oxford University Press 2016-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4711182/ /pubmed/26770811 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv071 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Ioannou, Antreas
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Petrides, Christos
Kleridou, Maro
Zintilis, Chrysostomos
Insidious manifestation of pyogenic liver abscess caused by Streptococcus intermedius and Micrococcus luteus: a case report
title Insidious manifestation of pyogenic liver abscess caused by Streptococcus intermedius and Micrococcus luteus: a case report
title_full Insidious manifestation of pyogenic liver abscess caused by Streptococcus intermedius and Micrococcus luteus: a case report
title_fullStr Insidious manifestation of pyogenic liver abscess caused by Streptococcus intermedius and Micrococcus luteus: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Insidious manifestation of pyogenic liver abscess caused by Streptococcus intermedius and Micrococcus luteus: a case report
title_short Insidious manifestation of pyogenic liver abscess caused by Streptococcus intermedius and Micrococcus luteus: a case report
title_sort insidious manifestation of pyogenic liver abscess caused by streptococcus intermedius and micrococcus luteus: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26770811
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omv071
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