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Why Won't This Heal?: Actinomyces And Wounds, Christina Wagener
Why Won't This Heal?: Actinomyces And Wounds, Christina Wagener
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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 …