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Case Reports
. 2021 Apr 29:41:100892.
doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2021.100892. eCollection 2021 May.

Pleural empyema caused by Actinomyces turicensis

Apostolos C Agrafiotis  1 , Ines Lardinois  1
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Pleural empyema caused by Actinomyces turicensis

Apostolos C Agrafiotis et al. New Microbes New Infect. .

Abstract

Actinomyces turicensis was first identified in 1995. To the best of our knowledge, pleural empyema caused by A. turicensis has never been reported. In the case reported herein, a patient with pleural empyema was treated surgically, and in the bacterial samples, A. turicensis was isolated.

Keywords: Actinomyces turicensis; actinomycosis; commensal flora; pleural empyema; pleural infections.

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