%0 Case Reports
%T Neurological disease may precede lymphadenopathies in Actinomyces europaeus infection.
%A Corcione S
%A Curtoni A
%A Paolucci IA
%A Di Perri G
%A De Rosa FG
%A Cavallo R
%J J Infect Public Health
%V 11
%N 4
%D Jul 2018 0
%M 29277334
%F 7.537
%R 10.1016/j.jiph.2017.12.010
%X Actinomyces species are part of the commensal flora of the mucous membranes of the oropharynx, gastrointestinal tract and female genital tract. Actinomyces europaeus is a short, nonmotile, facultative anaerobic rod first described in 1997, susceptible in vitro to a wide range of b-lactam antibiotics which are regarded as first choice. In this report we described the case of A. europaeus infection in a young female patient admitted to Intensive Care Unit and the possible damage of vascular endothelium due to a chronic progressive actinomycosis that at first involved neck soft tissue, then cervical lymphnodes, and finally extended to the vascular structure.