ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII, A PREVIOUSLY UNDOCUMENTED CAUSE OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS; WITH LITERARY REVIEW
- 1 Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, United States
- 2 University of South Carolina, United States
- 3 Texas Tech University Health Science Center, United States
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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajidsp.2014.132.136
Copyright: © 2014 Loren Garrison Morgan, Ashley L. Davis, Paul Poommipanit and Yasir Ahmed. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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Keywords
- Actinomyces Naeslundii
- Actinomyces
- Infective Endocarditis
- Prosthetic Aortic Valve
- Bacteremia
- Echocardiogram
- Epidemiology
- Pathogenesis
- Antibiotic Therapy