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FROM CULT TO CULTURE, A CASE OF DISSEMINATED FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM
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  • Shanan Immel,
  • Hogan Hudgins,
  • Brennan Lanier,
  • Matthew Flemer
Shanan Immel
Tulane University School of Medicine

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Hogan Hudgins
Tulane University School of Medicine
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Brennan Lanier
Tulane University School of Medicine
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Matthew Flemer
Tulane University School of Medicine
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Abstract

Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic Gram-negative rod commonly found in the oral cavity. We report a woman recently living in a Puerto Rican cult, presenting with abdominal pain and weight loss, found to have a liver abscess growing F. nucleatum extending to the pericardium, as well as a tubo-ovarian abscess.