How an Opportunistic Infection Can Mess with Your Brain and Take Your Breath Away: A Rare Case of Simultaneous Lung and Brain Abscess due to Streptococcus anginosus
Streptococcus anginosus (S. anginosus) is considered a friendly bug and is a one of many different bacteria that constitute the normal flora of the oral cavity. Nevertheless, it has been infrequently associated with more invasive infections, like lung abscess. It is extremely rare to have multisyste...
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| author | Farah Al-Saffar Daisy Torres-Miranda Saif Ibrahim Adil Shujaat |
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| description | Streptococcus anginosus (S. anginosus) is considered a friendly bug and is a one of many different bacteria that constitute the normal flora of the oral cavity. Nevertheless, it has been infrequently associated with more invasive infections, like lung abscess. It is extremely rare to have multisystemic involvement with S. anginosus group. We present a unique case of pulmonary and brain abscess due to S. anginosus in an immunocompetent patient. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e7527a6e1792450a8813998ad70650f82025-02-03T05:47:13ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332015-01-01201510.1155/2015/462459462459How an Opportunistic Infection Can Mess with Your Brain and Take Your Breath Away: A Rare Case of Simultaneous Lung and Brain Abscess due to Streptococcus anginosusFarah Al-Saffar0Daisy Torres-Miranda1Saif Ibrahim2Adil Shujaat3Department of Medicine, University of Florida-Jacksonville, 651-3 W. 8th Street, L-18, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USADepartment of Medicine, University of Florida-Jacksonville, 651-3 W. 8th Street, L-18, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USADepartment of Medicine, University of Florida-Jacksonville, 651-3 W. 8th Street, L-18, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USADivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Florida-Jacksonville, 651-3 W. 8th Street, L-18, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USAStreptococcus anginosus (S. anginosus) is considered a friendly bug and is a one of many different bacteria that constitute the normal flora of the oral cavity. Nevertheless, it has been infrequently associated with more invasive infections, like lung abscess. It is extremely rare to have multisystemic involvement with S. anginosus group. We present a unique case of pulmonary and brain abscess due to S. anginosus in an immunocompetent patient.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/462459 |
| spellingShingle | Farah Al-Saffar Daisy Torres-Miranda Saif Ibrahim Adil Shujaat How an Opportunistic Infection Can Mess with Your Brain and Take Your Breath Away: A Rare Case of Simultaneous Lung and Brain Abscess due to Streptococcus anginosus Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | How an Opportunistic Infection Can Mess with Your Brain and Take Your Breath Away: A Rare Case of Simultaneous Lung and Brain Abscess due to Streptococcus anginosus |
| title_full | How an Opportunistic Infection Can Mess with Your Brain and Take Your Breath Away: A Rare Case of Simultaneous Lung and Brain Abscess due to Streptococcus anginosus |
| title_fullStr | How an Opportunistic Infection Can Mess with Your Brain and Take Your Breath Away: A Rare Case of Simultaneous Lung and Brain Abscess due to Streptococcus anginosus |
| title_full_unstemmed | How an Opportunistic Infection Can Mess with Your Brain and Take Your Breath Away: A Rare Case of Simultaneous Lung and Brain Abscess due to Streptococcus anginosus |
| title_short | How an Opportunistic Infection Can Mess with Your Brain and Take Your Breath Away: A Rare Case of Simultaneous Lung and Brain Abscess due to Streptococcus anginosus |
| title_sort | how an opportunistic infection can mess with your brain and take your breath away a rare case of simultaneous lung and brain abscess due to streptococcus anginosus |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/462459 |
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