title: Mixed infection involving Actinomyces, Aggregatibacter, and Fusobacterium species presenting as perispinal tumor.
abstract: A representative case in which a polymicrobial infection involving Fusobacterium nucleatum, Actinomyces israelii and Aggregatibacter (formerly Actinobacillus) actinomycetemcomitans was initially diagnosed as malignancy in an edentulous patient. Additional history obtained after the nature of the syndrome was elucidated revealed that he had had his two remaining teeth extracted four months prior to this episode.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ghafghaichi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Troy
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Budvytiene
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Banaei
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Baron
mesh_terms: D000190:Actinomyces / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000196:Actinomycosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005674:Fusobacterium Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D016967:Fusobacterium nucleatum / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008853:Microscopy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009187:Myelitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D015661:Pasteurellaceae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016871:Pasteurellaceae Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000009:adverse effects