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A Rare Case of Community Acquired Cavitary Lung Disease Caused by Group F Streptococcus

1Brookdale University Hospital, Brooklyn, NY

2Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, IA


American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2017, Vol. 5 No. 1, 25-28
DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-5-1-7
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Nishant Tripathi, San Diego Warren, Niki Koirala PharmD. A Rare Case of Community Acquired Cavitary Lung Disease Caused by Group F Streptococcus. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2017; 5(1):25-28. doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-5-1-7.

Correspondence to: Nishant  Tripathi, Brookdale University Hospital, Brooklyn, NY. Email: nishant55@icloud.com

Abstract

Many organisms previously considered non-pathogenic are the causative agents of many fatal diseases . Considered to be non-pathogenic, Group F streptococcus is increasingly being implicated in several disease conditions. Streptococcus F can have different forms of hemolysis and presence of carbohydrate antigens that are not routinely tested. As a result they might be wrongly classified as other type of Streptococci or dismissed as contaminant. Here we describe a rare presentation of Cavitary lung disease caused by Group F Streptococcus.

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