Sudden Death of a Teenager Caused by Actinomyces israelii: A Case Report

Actinomycosis is a rare bacterial infection, caused by a group of Gram-positive bacteria which form the normal flora of oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, and female genital tract. We present a rare case met in 2016 at Legal Medicine Bihor County Service, Romania of a 14 yr old boy in infection wi...

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Autores principales: RADU, Carmen Corina, CAMARASAN, Andreea, PODILA, Cristina Maria, PERJU-DUMBRAVA, Dan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6174053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30320017
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author RADU, Carmen Corina
CAMARASAN, Andreea
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description Actinomycosis is a rare bacterial infection, caused by a group of Gram-positive bacteria which form the normal flora of oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, and female genital tract. We present a rare case met in 2016 at Legal Medicine Bihor County Service, Romania of a 14 yr old boy in infection with Actinomyces israelii was able to produce sudden death. Infection with A. israelii was diagnosed with the help of histological exam, after medico-legal autopsy. Most probably, A. israelii was aspirated from the level of the oropharynx, it arrived into the lungs, and using the haematological way it spread into the heart, causing sudden death.
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spelling pubmed-61740532018-10-12 Sudden Death of a Teenager Caused by Actinomyces israelii: A Case Report RADU, Carmen Corina CAMARASAN, Andreea PODILA, Cristina Maria PERJU-DUMBRAVA, Dan Iran J Public Health Case Report Actinomycosis is a rare bacterial infection, caused by a group of Gram-positive bacteria which form the normal flora of oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, and female genital tract. We present a rare case met in 2016 at Legal Medicine Bihor County Service, Romania of a 14 yr old boy in infection with Actinomyces israelii was able to produce sudden death. Infection with A. israelii was diagnosed with the help of histological exam, after medico-legal autopsy. Most probably, A. israelii was aspirated from the level of the oropharynx, it arrived into the lungs, and using the haematological way it spread into the heart, causing sudden death. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2018-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6174053/ /pubmed/30320017 Text en Copyright© Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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