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(Chest. 1974;65:229-230.)
© 1974 American College of Chest Physicians

Empyema Due to Actinomycoses naeslundi

Monroe S. Karetzky M.D., F.C.C.P.1 and Julius W. Garvey M.D.2

1 Director of Pulmonary Division, Morrisania Hospital; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2 Director of Thoracic Surgery, Morrisania Hospital; Assistant Professor of Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

A case of pulmonary actinomycoses due to Actinomyces naeslundi in a 20-year-old woman is described. She is the first patient in whom this agent has been shown to be pathogenic for man. The resulting empyema responded to therapy but decortication was required.






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