Actinomyces graevenitziiPulmonary Abscess Mimicking Tuberculosis in a Healthy Young Man
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Pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare disease that is often misdiag-nosed as tuberculosis or lung cancer.Actinomyces graevenitziiis a relatively new recognizedActinomycesspecies isolated from various clinical samples. The authors report a case of pulmonary actinomycosis caused byA graevenitzii. A computed tomography examination revealed an excavated consolidation in the middle right lobe of a previously healthy young man who presented with a long history of moderate cough. Cultures of the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid confirmed the diagnosis of pulmonary abscess caused byA gravenitzii. At the three-month follow-up consultation and, after six weeks of high-dose amoxicillin, the pulmonary lesion had completely disappeared.
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