Abstract
The repeated isolation of Actinomyces naeslundii from clinical materials associated with disease led to a comparison of isolates from the normal mouth with isolates from pathological clinical materials not from the mouth area. No important differences were observed between the isolates from these two sources. A human case of empyema of the gall bladder, apparently due to A. naeslundii, is described.
MeSH terms
-
Actinomyces / classification
-
Actinomyces / cytology
-
Actinomyces / isolation & purification*
-
Actinomyces / metabolism
-
Actinomycosis / microbiology*
-
Aged
-
Carbohydrate Metabolism
-
Carbon Dioxide
-
Culture Media
-
Empyema / microbiology
-
Female
-
Fermentation
-
Fluorescent Antibody Technique
-
Gallbladder Diseases / microbiology
-
Humans
-
Mouth / microbiology
-
Oxygen / metabolism
-
Serotyping
Substances
-
Culture Media
-
Carbon Dioxide
-
Oxygen