Fusobacterium Bacteremia Causing Hepatic Abscess in a Patient With Diverticulitis

Fusobacterium, a gram-negative non-spore-forming anaerobe, is a common inhabitant of the oral cavity; however, it is not typically found in other organ systems. The occurrence of a hepatic abscess associated with this organism is rare. We present a patient with recurrent diverticulitis with left upp...

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Autores principales: Bawa, Aditi, Kainat, Aleesha, Raza, Haseeb, George, Tissa B, Omer, Hanan, Pillai, Anjana C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9380652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989749
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26938
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author Bawa, Aditi
Kainat, Aleesha
Raza, Haseeb
George, Tissa B
Omer, Hanan
Pillai, Anjana C
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description Fusobacterium, a gram-negative non-spore-forming anaerobe, is a common inhabitant of the oral cavity; however, it is not typically found in other organ systems. The occurrence of a hepatic abscess associated with this organism is rare. We present a patient with recurrent diverticulitis with left upper quadrant abdominal pain, and abdominal imaging revealed a hepatic abscess in addition to sigmoid diverticulitis. Further investigations led to an unusual culprit; Fusobacterium nucleatum.
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spelling pubmed-93806522022-08-18 Fusobacterium Bacteremia Causing Hepatic Abscess in a Patient With Diverticulitis Bawa, Aditi Kainat, Aleesha Raza, Haseeb George, Tissa B Omer, Hanan Pillai, Anjana C Cureus Internal Medicine Fusobacterium, a gram-negative non-spore-forming anaerobe, is a common inhabitant of the oral cavity; however, it is not typically found in other organ systems. The occurrence of a hepatic abscess associated with this organism is rare. We present a patient with recurrent diverticulitis with left upper quadrant abdominal pain, and abdominal imaging revealed a hepatic abscess in addition to sigmoid diverticulitis. Further investigations led to an unusual culprit; Fusobacterium nucleatum. Cureus 2022-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9380652/ /pubmed/35989749 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26938 Text en Copyright © 2022, Bawa et al. https://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 author and source are credited.
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Bawa, Aditi
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Raza, Haseeb
George, Tissa B
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Fusobacterium Bacteremia Causing Hepatic Abscess in a Patient With Diverticulitis
title Fusobacterium Bacteremia Causing Hepatic Abscess in a Patient With Diverticulitis
title_full Fusobacterium Bacteremia Causing Hepatic Abscess in a Patient With Diverticulitis
title_fullStr Fusobacterium Bacteremia Causing Hepatic Abscess in a Patient With Diverticulitis
title_full_unstemmed Fusobacterium Bacteremia Causing Hepatic Abscess in a Patient With Diverticulitis
title_short Fusobacterium Bacteremia Causing Hepatic Abscess in a Patient With Diverticulitis
title_sort fusobacterium bacteremia causing hepatic abscess in a patient with diverticulitis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9380652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35989749
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.26938
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