Actinomyces odontolyticus bacteremia.(Dispatches)

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: December 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

We describe two immunosuppressed female patients with fever and Actinomyces odontolyticus bacteremia, a combination documented once previously in an immuno-competent male patient. The patients were treated with doxycycline and clindamycin; these drugs, with [beta]-lactams, are effective treatment for A. odontolyticus infections.

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Actinomycosis is a disease of antiquity, having most likely infected the jaw of a fossil rhinoceros (1) and the ribs of a man discovered in southeastern Ontario, Canada, who by radiocarbon dating lived 230 A.D. [+ or -] 55 (2). In 1877, ...

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