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Femoral osteomyelitis caused by oral anaerobic bacteria with mixed bacteremia of Campylobacter rectus and Parvimonas micra in a chronic periodontitis patient: a case report.

Naoya ItohNana AkazawaYuichi IshibanaShunsuke HamadaSumitaka HagiwaraHiromi Murakami
Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2022)
Only five cases of bloodstream infection with C. rectus have been reported, and this is the first report of mixed bacteremia with P. micra. Clinicians should consider that chronic periodontitis caused by rare oral anaerobic bacteria can cause systemic infections, such as osteomyelitis.
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