Telltale mouth flora: a clue to the diagnosis of factitious recurrent thigh abscesses.
A 27-year-old man had recurrent abscesses of the thigh caused by organisms typical of mouth flora. The unusual identity of these organisms from a thigh abscess led to the recognition that the illness was induced by self-injection with saliva, and that the patient had many of the characteristics of Münchausen's syndrome.
D000038:Abscess / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009055:Mouth / Q000382:microbiology*; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012008:Recurrence; D012463:Saliva / Q000382:microbiology; D013848:Thigh