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Case Reports
. 1993 Jun;103(6):1886-7.
doi: 10.1378/chest.103.6.1886.

Pulmonary actinomycosis. A cause of endobronchial disease in a patient with AIDS

I Cendan  1 , A Klapholz, W Talavera
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Pulmonary actinomycosis. A cause of endobronchial disease in a patient with AIDS

I Cendan et al. Chest. 1993 Jun.

Abstract

We report a case of a 47-year-old man with AIDS who presented with fever, cough and a lingular infiltrate. Flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy revealed an endobronchial exophytic mass with extensive purulent exudate which on Gram stain and cytology from bronchial washings revealed Actinomyces infection. There was a clinical response to penicillin therapy, and on repeat bronchoscopic examination, there was a partial resolution of the endobronchial infection. To our knowledge, this is the first known case of endobronchial pulmonary actinomycosis in a patient with AIDS.

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