Barrera-López, Lucía and Macía-Rodríguez, Cristina and Ferreiro-Fernández, Lucía and Díaz-Peromingo, José Antonio (2020) Fusobacterium Nucleatum Empyema: An Atypical Presentation. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (7). pp. 1-3. ISSN ISSN: 2284-2594
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Abstract
A 40-year-old man presented to the emergency room and was evaluated in the internal medicine department for unexplained weight loss, asthenia, anorexia and night sweats over the previous 2 months. After a loculated pleural effusion was identified on thoracic computed tomography, purulent fluid was drained from the lung and Fusobacterium nucleatum was isolated. The patient was successfully treated for 27 days with amoxicillin-clavulanic acid. This was an atypical presentation of a common micro-organism implicated in lung infections.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Fusobacterium nucleatum, empyema, unexplained weight loss |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2021 14:36 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2021 14:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/20933 |
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