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Fırat Tıp Dergisi
2016, Cilt 21, Sayı 4, Sayfa(lar) 183-186
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Actinomycosis: Retrospektive Evaluation of 13 Cases
Süheyla KÖMÜR1, Selçuk NAZİK2, Ferit KUŞÇU1, Aslıhan ULU1, Ayşe Seza İNAL1, Behice KURTARAN1, Hasan Salih Zeki AKSU1, Yeşim TAŞOVA1
1Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, Adana, Türkiye
2Bingöl Kadın Doğum ve Çocuk Hastalıkları Hastanesi, Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Kliniği, Bingöl, Türkiye

Objective: Actinomycosis is a chronic progressive bacterial infection caused by anaerobic Actinomyces species. Major clinical forms are cervicofacial, thoracic and abdominal actinomycosis. With history, clinical and radiological findings actinomyotic sulfur granules seen in patient samples is important for diagnosis. Since it is a rare disease, to take attention, we aimed to evaluate actinomycosis cases followed in our clinic.

Materials and Methods: Actinomycosis cases followed between the years 2000-2016 were evaluated retrospectively. The demographic characteristics of patients, clinical actinomycosis type, involvement region, concomitant diseases, data related to the prognosis of the disease and the duration of antibiotic use were recorded.

Results: The mean age was 56.9 ± 10.2 years, and all of eight (61.5%) were male and total 13 patients were evaluated. Cervicofacial (69.2%), thoracic (15.4%) and abdominal (15.4%) type actinomycosis were recorded in order of frequency. All of the cases were diagnosed clinically and pathologically. Except two patients all of them were treated with penicillin. The total mean treatment duration was six months, for the first month parenterally. One patient died because of primary disease, treatment was successful in 12 patients.

Conclusion: Actinomycosis is an infectious disease, difficult to diagnose due to the chronic slowly progressive process can involve a variety of systems. Successful results are avaliable with early diagnosis and appropriate antibiotic therapy.


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