| Literature DB >> 28273967 |
Purbasha Ghosh1, Indrajit Gupta2, Mousumi Kar3, Poulami Nandi4, Prosenjit Naskar5.
Abstract
The diagnosis of pulmonary actinomycosis is difficult and less than 10% of cases are diagnosed at the initial presentation. Actinomycosis is always poly-microbial flora infection in human. On the other hand, Candida parapsilosis is an emerging fungal pathogen especially in immuno-compromised patients. Combined bacterial-fungal infection increases frequency and severity of the disease. This report is a case of a Candida parapsilosis co-infection in a 23-year-old male patient having pulmonary actinomycosis. This thereby could guide the clinicians towards an appropriate therapy.Entities:
Keywords: Appropiate therapy; Immunosuppression; Poly-microbial flora
Year: 2017 PMID: 28273967 PMCID: PMC5324412 DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2017/24268.9300
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Diagn Res ISSN: 0973-709X