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Actinomyces pyogenes bacteraemia in a patient with carcinoma of the colon
1Department of Microbiology, Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, U.K.
The Journal of Infection
|November 1, 1988
Abstract:
A patient with carcinoma of the colon adherent to the pelvis developed Actinomyces pyogenes bacteraemia after uterine curettage but recovered with antibiotic treatment. This organism is a Gram-positive cocco-bacillus, beta-haemolytic when growing on blood agar and reactive with Lancefield group G antiserum. These features could easily lead to its misidentification as a streptococcus. Reports of human infection with A. pyogenes are summarised.