tetracycline and Glossitis

Actinomycosis is a suppurative infection usually due to a facultative anaerobic bacteria, actinomyces israelii. This rare infection has been reported in immunocompetent individuals, with buccal or pharyngeal mucosal erosions. Paradoxically, few cases have been observed after solid organ transplantation: 2 cases after lung, 1 case after heart-lung transplantation and 1 case after renal transplantation. We report on a renal transplant recipient who developed a tongue and oropharynx suppurative abscess, looking like an epithelioma. Histological examination showed granulomatous inflammation with an angiofibroblastic reaction; few colonies of actinomyces were also observed by the pathologist. This lesion disappeared easily and totally after tetracycline treatment.

Topics: Actinomyces; Actinomycosis; Aged; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Glossitis; Humans; Kidney Transplantation; Male; Pharyngitis; Tetracycline

Topics: Acinetobacter; Animals; Bacillus; Biopsy; Dog Diseases; Dogs; Enterococcus faecalis; Environment, Controlled; Escherichia coli; Glossitis; Humidity; Iodine; Physical Exertion; Sunlight; Temperature; Tetracycline; Time Factors; Tongue; Vietnam

Topics: Abnormalities, Drug-Induced; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antitubercular Agents; Child; Child, Preschool; Chloramphenicol; Drug Hypersensitivity; Female; Gastrointestinal Diseases; Glossitis; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Newborn, Diseases; Kidney Diseases; Pregnancy; Stomatitis; Sulfonamides; Tetracycline