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Pelvic Actinomycosis: A Case Report, Jacklyn Locklear, Rachel Gilbert, Neelima Sukhavasi, Elizabeth Sutton
Pelvic Actinomycosis: A Case Report, Jacklyn Locklear, Rachel Gilbert, Neelima Sukhavasi, Elizabeth Sutton
Graduate Medical Education Research Journal
Introduction: Actinomycosis is a bacterial infection caused by the gram positive anaerobic bacteria that most commonly infects the cervicofacial region of the body. Rarely, it can infect the pelvis and typically presents in a nonspecific manner.
Case Report: We present a case of a 43 year old female G6P6006 with Paragard® intrauterine device (IUD) who presented with purulent umbilical discharge and pelvic pain. Initial imaging was concerned for gastrointestinal or ovarian malignancy. Patient underwent diagnostic laparoscopy with pelvic washings and hysteroscopy D&C. Operative pathology returned with results for actinomyces (IUD likely source).
Conclusion: While it is established IUDs can be …
A Case Report Of Pulmonary Actinomycosis: A Diagnostic Quagmire, Sarah Akbani, Aderinsola O. Ademiluyi, Jonathan Dean, Vinita Mathur
A Case Report Of Pulmonary Actinomycosis: A Diagnostic Quagmire, Sarah Akbani, Aderinsola O. Ademiluyi, Jonathan Dean, Vinita Mathur
Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery
The implications of misdiagnosis can be drastic, especially when the correct diagnosis is treatable. Pulmonary actinomycosis is one of the complications of infection with actinomyces, an anaerobic gram-positive organism that is usually found as a part of the normal flora in the human body infection. It is a very rare disease and is frequently mistaken with other diagnoses owing to its nonspecific presentation. In this report, we present a 67-year-old male with a mass like lesion on a CT scan of his chest that was done due to progressively worsening productive cough, weight loss and fatigue. These symptoms could have …
Always Remember To Floss... Or Else, Arunmozhi (Sankavi) Aravagiri Md, Muhammad Zain Md, Rajesh Gulati Md
Always Remember To Floss... Or Else, Arunmozhi (Sankavi) Aravagiri Md, Muhammad Zain Md, Rajesh Gulati Md
Internal Medicine
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Why Won't This Heal?: Actinomyces And Wounds, Christina Wagener
Why Won't This Heal?: Actinomyces And Wounds, Christina Wagener
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Why Won’t This heal? Actinomyces and Wounds
Christina Wagener, MSN, Steve Kalish, MD, Mary Lee Barron, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, FAANP
An incidental finding of Actinomyces europaeus in a refractory healing abscess presents an opportunity to close a knowledge and treatment gap. After finding Actinomyces species in multiple patients within a twenty-month period in an independent hospital in Chicago, IL, the probability exists that Actinomyces is becoming more prevalent in subcutaneous wounds. Chronic, non-healing wounds cause multiple negative consequences including financial, psychological and physical losses and possibly death.
Actinomyces is a Gram-positive, filamentous, non-acid-fast and anaerobic-to-microaerophilic bacteria first identified in 1997 …
Insights Into The Reactivation, Regulation And Essentiality Of Oxidative Protein Folding Pathways In Actinobacteria, Belkys Sanchez
Insights Into The Reactivation, Regulation And Essentiality Of Oxidative Protein Folding Pathways In Actinobacteria, Belkys Sanchez
Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
Accurate disulfide bond formation is important for proper folding, stability and function of exported proteins. The process of disulfide bond formation, termed oxidative protein folding, is catalyzed by thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase enzymes. Oxidative protein folding pathways influence processes essential for bacterial physiology and pathogenicity. In the Gram-positive actinobacterial pathogens Actinomyces oris and Corynebacterium diphtheriae oxidative protein folding is catalyzed by the primary thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase MdbA. MdbA is required for assembly of adhesive pilus, which mediate receptor-dependent bacterial interactions, or coaggregation, in A. oris. In the first part of this dissertation, I identify components of the electron transport chain (ETC) required for …
Actinomyces Cavernous Sinus Infection: A Case And Systematic Literature Review, Michal Lubomski, James Dalgliesh, Kenneth Lee, Omprakash Damodaran, Genevieve Mckew, Stephen Reddel
Actinomyces Cavernous Sinus Infection: A Case And Systematic Literature Review, Michal Lubomski, James Dalgliesh, Kenneth Lee, Omprakash Damodaran, Genevieve Mckew, Stephen Reddel
Medical Papers and Journal Articles
A 63-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of progressive right-sided exophthalmos, painful ophthalmoplegia and fevers. As more features developed, he was diagnosed with giant cell arteritis then Tolosa-Hunt syndrome and transiently responded to corticosteroids. A bland cerebrospinal fluid and highly metabolically active brain (18F)-fluoro-D-glucose-positron emission tomography suggested lymphoma. Biopsy of the mass showed sulphur granules with Gram-positive filamentous bacteria with Actinomyces-like colonies. Actinomyces cavernous sinus infections are rare and indolent. They often mimic non-infective causes including other inflammatory and infiltrative conditions, vascular and neoplastic causes, particularly lymphoma. Clinicians should consider infective cavernous sinus syndromes in people with a …
Oxidative Protein Folding Pathways In Gram-Positive Actinobacteria, Melissa E. Robinson
Oxidative Protein Folding Pathways In Gram-Positive Actinobacteria, Melissa E. Robinson
Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
Disulfide bonds are important for the stability of many secreted proteins. These covalent linkages, which result from the oxidation of neighboring cysteine (Cys) residues, are often rate-limiting steps for protein folding and maturation. Disulfide bond formation is restricted to extracellular oxidizing compartments like the eukaryotic endoplasmic reticulum and Gram-negative bacterial periplasm. Protein oxidation has been well-studied in these organisms, but largely ignored in Gram-positive bacteria. Due to the absence of an outer membrane, these organisms are thought to lack compartments in which to catalyze oxidative protein folding.
This thesis reveals that Gram-positive Actinobacteria use disulfide bond formation to help fold …
Oral Microbial Biofilm Stimulation Of Epithelial Cell Responses, Rebecca Peyyala, Sreenatha S. Kirakodu, Karen F. Novak, Jeffrey L. Ebersole
Oral Microbial Biofilm Stimulation Of Epithelial Cell Responses, Rebecca Peyyala, Sreenatha S. Kirakodu, Karen F. Novak, Jeffrey L. Ebersole
Center for Oral Health Research Faculty Publications
Oral bacterial biofilms trigger chronic inflammatory responses in the host that can result in the tissue destructive events of periodontitis. However, the characteristics of the capacity of specific host cell types to respond to these biofilms remain ill-defined. This report describes the use of a novel model of bacterial biofilms to stimulate oral epithelial cells and profile select cytokines and chemokines that contribute to the local inflammatory environment in the periodontium. Monoinfection biofilms were developed with Streptococcus sanguinis, Streptococcus oralis, Streptococcus gordonii, Actinomyces naeslundii, Fusobacterium nucleatum, and Porphyromonas gingivalis on rigid gas-permeable contact lenses. Biofilms, as well as planktonic cultures …