First Case of Splenic Abscess Parvimonas micra and Bacteremia Porphyromonas gingivalis Coinfection

We report a case of a 76-year-old Caucasian male with bacteremia caused by Porphyromonas gingivalis and splenic abscess caused by Parvimonas micra. This patient presented with nonspecific symptoms: fever, chills, body aches, and shortness of breath. He was treated with IV piperacillin-tazobactam tha...

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Autores principales: Ho, Angela, Duvapu, Bharati, Duong, Ngoc, Samantara, Sandhyarani
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/PMC9480488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36127960
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28103
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author Ho, Angela
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description We report a case of a 76-year-old Caucasian male with bacteremia caused by Porphyromonas gingivalis and splenic abscess caused by Parvimonas micra. This patient presented with nonspecific symptoms: fever, chills, body aches, and shortness of breath. He was treated with IV piperacillin-tazobactam that was later switched to ampicillin sodium/sulbactam sodium during his hospital course and underwent a splenectomy. He ultimately expired due to acute respiratory failure and cardiac arrest, secondary to post-surgical complications. To our knowledge, this is the first case of P. micra and P. gingivalis coinfection.
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spelling pubmed-94804882022-09-19 First Case of Splenic Abscess Parvimonas micra and Bacteremia Porphyromonas gingivalis Coinfection Ho, Angela Duvapu, Bharati Duong, Ngoc Samantara, Sandhyarani Cureus Internal Medicine We report a case of a 76-year-old Caucasian male with bacteremia caused by Porphyromonas gingivalis and splenic abscess caused by Parvimonas micra. This patient presented with nonspecific symptoms: fever, chills, body aches, and shortness of breath. He was treated with IV piperacillin-tazobactam that was later switched to ampicillin sodium/sulbactam sodium during his hospital course and underwent a splenectomy. He ultimately expired due to acute respiratory failure and cardiac arrest, secondary to post-surgical complications. To our knowledge, this is the first case of P. micra and P. gingivalis coinfection. Cureus 2022-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9480488/ /pubmed/36127960 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28103 Text en Copyright © 2022, Ho 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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Ho, Angela
Duvapu, Bharati
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Samantara, Sandhyarani
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title First Case of Splenic Abscess Parvimonas micra and Bacteremia Porphyromonas gingivalis Coinfection
title_full First Case of Splenic Abscess Parvimonas micra and Bacteremia Porphyromonas gingivalis Coinfection
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title_full_unstemmed First Case of Splenic Abscess Parvimonas micra and Bacteremia Porphyromonas gingivalis Coinfection
title_short First Case of Splenic Abscess Parvimonas micra and Bacteremia Porphyromonas gingivalis Coinfection
title_sort first case of splenic abscess parvimonas micra and bacteremia porphyromonas gingivalis coinfection
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9480488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36127960
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28103
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