A 29-year-old woman presented with multiple painful swelling with discharging sinuses over the scalp. Histopathological examination of the biopsy tissue was suggestive of actinomycotic mycetoma. Streptomyces spp. Was isolated from blood culture. The patient was successfully treated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and crystalline penicillin. This case is reported because of the rare occurrence of bacteremia by Streptomyces spp. secondary to subcutaneous actinomycotic mycetoma. Moreover, an interesting association between successive two pregnancies and occurrence of mycetoma of the scalp was observed in this case. © 2010 Joseph et al.
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Joseph, N. M., Harish, B. N., Sistla, S., Thappa, D. M., & Parija, S. C. (2010). Streptomyces bacteremia in a patient with actinomycotic mycetoma. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 4(4), 249–252. https://doi.org/10.3855/jidc.645
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