title: Disseminated coinfection with Actinomyces graevenitzii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis: case report and review of the literature.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Section of Infectious diseases, LSU Health Sciences Center, 1542 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, LA 70112-2822, USA.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tietz
authors.forename: Kenneth E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Aldridge
authors.forename: Julio E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Figueroa
mesh_terms: D000190:Actinomyces / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D000196:Actinomycosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology