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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2005, p. 3017-3022, Vol. 43, No. 6
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.6.3017-3022.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

CASE REPORT

Disseminated Coinfection with Actinomyces graevenitzii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Andreas Tietz, Kenneth E. Aldridge,* and Julio E. Figueroa

Section of Infectious Diseases, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

Received 8 October 2004/ Returned for modification 30 November 2004/ Accepted 6 January 2005

We report the first case of disseminated infection with both Actinomyces graevenitzii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis and review the medical literature. Concomitant actinomycosis and tuberculosis is very rare. The potential of the facultatively aerobic, newly described A. graevenitzii for disseminated invasive infection needs to be evaluated.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Infectious Diseases Laboratory, LSU Health Sciences Center, 1542 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, LA 70112-2822. Phone: (504) 568-5084. Fax: (504) 568-2127. E-mail: kaldri{at}lsuhsc.edu.

{dagger} Present address: University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2005, p. 3017-3022, Vol. 43, No. 6
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.6.3017-3022.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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