Affiliation:
1. Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Oral
Campylobacter
species are rarely reported to cause extraoral infections. Here we present three cases of extraoral abscess caused by an oral
Campylobacter
sp. and a
Streptococcus
sp. The
Campylobacter
species were all isolated anaerobically and identified by sequencing analysis of the 16S rRNA gene. The cases included a breast abscess caused by
Campylobacter rectus
and a non-group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus in a patient with lymphoma, a liver abscess caused by
Campylobacter curvus
and an alpha-hemolytic streptococcus in a patient with complicated ovarian cancer, and a postobstructive bronchial abscess caused by
C. curvus
and group C beta-hemolytic
Streptococcus constellatus
in a patient with lung cancer. The abscesses were drained or resected, and the patients were treated with antibiotics with full resolution of the lesions. The
C. curvus
cases are likely the first reported infections by this organism, and the
C. rectus
case represents the second such reported extraoral infection.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Cited by
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