How an Opportunistic Infection Can Mess with Your Brain and Take Your Breath Away: A Rare Case of Simultaneous Lung and Brain Abscess due to Streptococcus anginosus.

Farah Al-Saffar Daisy Torres-Miranda Saif Ibrahim Adil Shujaat

Case Rep Infect Dis

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Florida-Jacksonville, 651-3 W. 8th Street, L-18, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USA.

Published: April 2015

Streptococcus anginosus is a generally harmless bacterium that is part of the normal bacteria in the mouth.
It can sometimes cause serious infections, like lung abscesses, though this is uncommon.
A unique case is presented where an immunocompetent patient developed both pulmonary and brain abscesses due to this bacterium.

Streptococcus anginosus (S. anginosus) is considered a friendly bug and is a one of many different bacteria that constitute the normal flora of the oral cavity. Nevertheless, it has been infrequently associated with more invasive infections, like lung abscess. It is extremely rare to have multisystemic involvement with S. anginosus group. We present a unique case of pulmonary and brain abscess due to S. anginosus in an immunocompetent patient.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4397419	PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/462459	DOI Listing

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