A Rare Thermophilic Bug In Complicated Diverticular Abscess

Keywords

Actinomyces meyeri; Diverticular abscess; Gastroenterology

Abstract

Actinomycosis is a form of painful abscess in the gastrointestinal tract or in deep tissue caused by actinomyces species. They are one of the commensal bacteria in the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract of humans but can opportunistically cause infection in immunosuppressive hosts through invasion of breached mucosa or necrotic tissue while mimicking malignancy, gastrointestinal tuberculosis, and inflammatory bowel disease. Actinomyces israelii is, by far, the major and most common human pathogen throughout literatures. By virtue of rarity and diagnostic confusion with masquerading malignancies, only 10% of the cases have been diagnosed preoperatively, so as to be able to verge patients from undergoing unnecessary surgical intervention. Herein, we present a rare case of complicated diverticular abscess manifested by Actinomyces meyeri after postoperative tissue diagnosis.

Publication Date

9-6-2017

Publication Title

Case Reports in Gastroenterology

Volume

11

Issue

3

Number of Pages

569-575

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1159/000480072

Socpus ID

85030158704 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85030158704

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