ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII, A PREVIOUSLY UNDOCUMENTED CAUSE OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS; WITH LITERARY REVIEW
Loren Garrison Morgan1, Ashley L. Davis2, Paul Poommipanit1 & Yasir Ahmed3 Show affiliations
- Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, United States
- University of South Carolina, United States
- Texas Tech University Health Science Center, United States
American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp. 132–136 · doi.org/10.3844/ajidsp.2014.132.136
Abstract
Actinomycotic endocarditis is a rare disease with only 18 documented cases to date. Most of these cases are sub-acute or chronic infections and usually lack the stigmata of classic endocarditis. This article reviews the details of previously published reports of endocarditis due to various species of actinomyces, along with consensus opinion on diagnosis and treatment. We also present our unique case of Actinomyces naeslundii infective endocarditis, the first case ever attributed to this organism in medical literature.
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Morgan, L. G., Davis, A. L., Poommipanit, P. & Ahmed, Y. (2014). ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII, A PREVIOUSLY UNDOCUMENTED CAUSE OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS; WITH LITERARY REVIEW. American Journal of Infectious Diseases, 10(3), 132–136. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajidsp.2014.132.136
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