Actinomycosis is a rare chronic disease caused by Actinomyces spp., anaerobic Gram-
positive bacteria that normally colonize the human mouth and digestive and genital tracts …

Background Thoracic actinomycosis is an uncommon, chronic suppurative bacterial
infection caused by actinomyces species, especially Actinomyces israelii. Methods It is …

Actinomycosis is an uncommon, chronic bacterial infection that induces both suppurative
and granulomatous inflammation. Localized swelling with suppuration, abscess formation …

This taxon is one of the major phyla in the domain Bacteria, as inferred from its branching
pattern in the 16S rRNA gene tree (Garrity and Holt, 2001; Ludwig and Klenk, 2005) and …

OBJECTIVE. Thoracic actinomycosis is a chronic suppurative pulmonary or endobronchial
infection caused by Actinomyces israelii, a gram-positive anaerobic organism. We present …

Actinomycosis is a rare, indolent and invasive infection caused by Actinomyces species.
Actinomycosis develops when there is disruption of the mucosal barrier, and invasion and …

Empyema necessitatis (EN) is a rare disease, with unknown incidence, which has received
little attention from a dermatological point of view but it is essential to recognize it because of …

OBJECTIVE. Our objective was to assess the CT findings for endobronchial actinomycosis
associated with broncholithiasis. CONCLUSION. Endobronchial actinomycosis associated …

Introduction Endobronchial foreign body aspiration is not common in adults, but it is a life-
threatening event. Recurrent pneumonias by chronic retention of foreign body often lead to …

OBJECTIVES To describe clinicoradiologic and histopathologic features of
bronchopulmonary actinomycosis and to determine whether hiatal hernia (HH) is a potential …