Hepatic actinomycosis

A case of hepatic actinomycosis contracted one year after removal of an intrauterine device during ongoing Actinomyces cervicitis is reported. During active disease, lymphocytes from the apparently fully immunocompetent patient were able to proliferate but not to produce the proinflammatory lymphoki...

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Published inAPMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica et immunologica Scandinavica Vol. 107; no. 1-6; pp. 225 - 230
Main Authors ANDERSEN, Å. B., RAVN, P., KAHN, R., ROSTED, A., PHILIPSEN, E. K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.1999
Subjects
Actinomyces
actinomycosis
continuous fever
hepatic abscess
lymphocyte proliferation
γ-interferon
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Summary:A case of hepatic actinomycosis contracted one year after removal of an intrauterine device during ongoing Actinomyces cervicitis is reported. During active disease, lymphocytes from the apparently fully immunocompetent patient were able to proliferate but not to produce the proinflammatory lymphokine γ‐interferon in response to Actinomyces antigen. This ability was only partly restored during antibiotic therapy.
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ArticleID:APM225
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ISSN:0903-4641
1600-0463
DOI:10.1111/j.1699-0463.1999.tb01548.x