A pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolyticus and Veillonella atypica in an immunocompetent patient with dental caries

Actinomycosis is a rare, chronic granulomatous infection, frequently associated with immunocompromised states, but it can also affect healthy people. Here, we report a case of a pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolitycus and Veillonella atypica due to a dental caries in an immunocompetent 65‐y...

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Autores principales: Crisafulli, Ernesto, Bernardinello, Nicol, Alfieri, Veronica, Pellegrino, Francesca, Lazzari, Chiara, Gnetti, Letizia, Chetta, Alfredo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6768442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31576208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.493
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author Crisafulli, Ernesto
Bernardinello, Nicol
Alfieri, Veronica
Pellegrino, Francesca
Lazzari, Chiara
Gnetti, Letizia
Chetta, Alfredo
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Bernardinello, Nicol
Alfieri, Veronica
Pellegrino, Francesca
Lazzari, Chiara
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description Actinomycosis is a rare, chronic granulomatous infection, frequently associated with immunocompromised states, but it can also affect healthy people. Here, we report a case of a pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolitycus and Veillonella atypica due to a dental caries in an immunocompetent 65‐year‐old man patient.
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spelling pubmed-67684422019-10-01 A pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolyticus and Veillonella atypica in an immunocompetent patient with dental caries Crisafulli, Ernesto Bernardinello, Nicol Alfieri, Veronica Pellegrino, Francesca Lazzari, Chiara Gnetti, Letizia Chetta, Alfredo Respirol Case Rep Case Reports Actinomycosis is a rare, chronic granulomatous infection, frequently associated with immunocompromised states, but it can also affect healthy people. Here, we report a case of a pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolitycus and Veillonella atypica due to a dental caries in an immunocompetent 65‐year‐old man patient. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2019-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6768442/ /pubmed/31576208 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.493 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Reports
Crisafulli, Ernesto
Bernardinello, Nicol
Alfieri, Veronica
Pellegrino, Francesca
Lazzari, Chiara
Gnetti, Letizia
Chetta, Alfredo
A pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolyticus and Veillonella atypica in an immunocompetent patient with dental caries
title A pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolyticus and Veillonella atypica in an immunocompetent patient with dental caries
title_full A pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolyticus and Veillonella atypica in an immunocompetent patient with dental caries
title_fullStr A pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolyticus and Veillonella atypica in an immunocompetent patient with dental caries
title_full_unstemmed A pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolyticus and Veillonella atypica in an immunocompetent patient with dental caries
title_short A pulmonary infection by Actinomyces odontolyticus and Veillonella atypica in an immunocompetent patient with dental caries
title_sort pulmonary infection by actinomyces odontolyticus and veillonella atypica in an immunocompetent patient with dental caries
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6768442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31576208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.493
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