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Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella Lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report

Overview
Journal Case Rep Infect Dis
Publisher Wiley
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2013 Jan 25
PMID 23346432
Citations 10
Authors
Ahmad Salameh
Stephen A Klotz
Tirdad T Zangeneh
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Abstract

Anaerobic bacteria are the predominant normal flora of the mucous membranes which may cause life-threatening disseminated infections and are often difficult to culture from infected sites. Eggerthella (previously known as Eubacteria species) is an anaerobic, nonsporulating, nonmotile, Gram-positive rod that is found in the human colon and feces and has been isolated from various other clinical specimens. We report a case of complicated disseminated anaerobic bacterial infection with Eggerthella lenta in a healthy immunocompetent man causing multiple brain abscesses, liver abscesses, necrotizing pneumonia, and osteomyelitis of the left radial bone. He was successfully treated with empiric penicillin G and metronidazole.

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