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Salameh A, Klotz SA, Zangeneh TT. Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report. Case Rep Infect Dis. 2012;2012:517637doi: 10.1155/2012/517637.
Salameh, A., Klotz, S. A., & Zangeneh, T. T. (2012). Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report. Case reports in infectious diseases, 2012517637. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/517637
Salameh, Ahmad, et al. "Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report." Case reports in infectious diseases vol. 2012 (2012): 517637. doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/517637
Salameh A, Klotz SA, Zangeneh TT. Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report. Case Rep Infect Dis. 2012;2012:517637. doi: 10.1155/2012/517637. Epub 2012 Dec 17. PMID: 23346432; PMCID: PMC3533611.
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Case Rep Infect Dis. 2012;2012:517637. doi: 10.1155/2012/517637. Epub 2012 Dec 17.

Disseminated Infection Caused by Eggerthella lenta in a Previously Healthy Young Man: A Case Report.

Case reports in infectious diseases

Ahmad Salameh, Stephen A Klotz, Tirdad T Zangeneh

Affiliations

  1. Department of Medicine, The University of Arizona Medical Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.

PMID: 23346432 PMCID: PMC3533611 DOI: 10.1155/2012/517637

Abstract

Anaerobic bacteria are the predominant normal flora of the mucous membranes which may cause life-threatening disseminated infections and are often difficult to culture from infected sites. Eggerthella (previously known as Eubacteria species) is an anaerobic, nonsporulating, nonmotile, Gram-positive rod that is found in the human colon and feces and has been isolated from various other clinical specimens. We report a case of complicated disseminated anaerobic bacterial infection with Eggerthella lenta in a healthy immunocompetent man causing multiple brain abscesses, liver abscesses, necrotizing pneumonia, and osteomyelitis of the left radial bone. He was successfully treated with empiric penicillin G and metronidazole.

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