Actinomycosis is a very rare disease caused by Actinomyces israelii, saprophytic bacterium of the oropharynx and genital tract women. Its diagnosis made difficult lack clinical radiological specificity. We report three cases patients with actinomycosis various locations, but similar management. These recall radio-clinical therapeutic aspects this infection. They underline necessity microbiologi...

Actinomycosis is a rare chronic disease caused by Actinomyces spp., anaerobic Gram-positive bacteria that normally colonize the human mouth and digestive and genital tracts. Physicians must be aware of typical clinical presentations (such as cervicofacial actinomycosis following dental focus of infection, pelvic actinomycosis in women with an intrauterine device, and pulmonary actinomycosis in ...

renal actinomycosis is a rare infection, and actinomycosis mostly acts as a normal flora in mouth, colon and vagina. we present a case of 56 years old man, who referred to our center for renal transplantation with kidney stone and diagnosed  with renal actinomycosis.  this case has risen possibility of rare infection that can be considered in the setting of renal transplantation.

<p>Actinomyces are commensals of human oropharynx and actinomycosis is considered mainly as an endogenous infection that triggered by a mucosal lesion. Typically, the disease presents slowly progressive painless indurated mass evolving into multiple abscesses with draining sinus tracts sometimes expressing typical yellow exudate characteristic sulfur granules. The gold standard diagnosis ...

Abdominal actinomycosis is a disease that is difficult to diagnose nonoperatively. Usual manifestations are abscesses and draining sinus tracts. Treatment is typically surgical and requires prolonged intravenous antibiotics. Presented is a patient who underwent surveillance colonoscopy after resection for colon carcinoma. Diagnosis of colonic actinomycosis and subsequent resolution was demonstr...

Pelvic and intra-abdominal Actinomycosis can be difficult to diagnose preoperatively and it may also mimic many other diseases, including malignancies. We present a patient with pelvic Actinomycosis probably caused by a long-standing intrauterine device (IUD). We emphasize the challenges in diagnostic process and stress that though a rare disease, intra-abdominal Actinomycosis should be suspect...

Actinomycosis is a subacute or chronic suppurative infection caused by Actinomyces species, which are anaerobic Gram-positive bacteria that normally colonize the human mouth and digestive and urogenital tracts. Cervicofacial actinomycosis is the most frequent clinical form of actinomycosis, and is associated with odontogenic infection. Characterized by an abscess and mandibular involvement with...

Introduction ctinomycosis was first described as a clinical entity over 100 years ago: in fact, the first case of actinomycosis, in man, was described by Von Langebeck, in 1845, and it was attributed to a fungus. Israel and Ponfick, in 1891, defined the anaerobic nature of actinomyces and isolated it in man. Actinomyces species are members of the endogenous flora of mucous membranes, and are fr...

Introduction: Actinomycosis is a systemic chronic bacterial infection caused by Actinomyces Israelii, an anaerobic organism normally resident in the human mouth. However, the actinomycosis of the larynx is very rare, and only about 15 cases have been reported in the literature so far. Most of the cases reported occurred in patients who had previously undergone radiotherapy for laryngeal cancer...