Multiple Hepatic Abscess from Parvimonas micra : An Emerging Gastrointestinal Microbe
is an obligate anaerobic bacterium and a known commensal of the human oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract. It is rarely associated with infections outside the oral cavity. Recently it has been isolated as a causative agent in a variety of systemic infections, but it has never been previously iden...
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Veröffentlicht in: | ACG case reports journal 2018-09, Vol.5 (1), p.e70 |
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Zusammenfassung: | is an obligate anaerobic bacterium and a known commensal of the human oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract. It is rarely associated with infections outside the oral cavity. Recently it has been isolated as a causative agent in a variety of systemic infections, but it has never been previously identified to cause a hepatic abscess. We report a 90-year-old woman with multiple hepatic abscesses caused by
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ISSN: | 2326-3253 2326-3253 |
DOI: | 10.14309/crj.2018.70 |