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Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey
On-line version ISSN 1025-0255
Abstract
SALAS VALDERA, Elisa et al. Bacterial endocartitis by actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans: a case report. AMC [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1025-0255.
A case of bacterial endocarditis is presented, a boy of six years entered at “Dr. Eduardo Agramonte Piña” Educational Provincial Paediatric Hospital on January 2006, with a symptomatology that can infer the suspicious presence of dengue. Exams were promoted that permitted to reject this illness. In the first hemoculture carried out, an Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans was isolated, this microorganism is a gram negative coccobacillus, facultative anaerobe, motionless, not spores former that ferments carbohydrates without gas production, it is a part of the normal flora of the human mouth and is very sensitive to the antimicrobial, the patient solved with the antibacterial treatment, of ceftriaxone and ciprofloxacin that was substituted by gentamyicin and ampicillin.
Keywords : actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; endocarditis bacterial; ceftriaxone [therapeutic use]; gram-negative facultatively anaerobic rods; ciprofloxacin [therapeutic use]; child.