Clinicians should consider actinomycosis as part of the differential diagnosis, especially when clinical findings do not align with more common conditions such as tuberculosis or neoplasms.

The outdated laboratory at Westmead Hospital conducts 3.5 million pathology-related tests a year and is about to get a major upgrade.

Pulmonary actinomycosis is difficult to diagnose. Clinically and radiologically, pulmonary actinomycosis can often mimic tuberculosis, lung abscess, or lung cancer 1, 2, and can sometimes cause ...

A shortage of forensic pathologists in New South Wales is delaying court matters, including murder trials, by up to 18 months.

Actinomycosis in human is most commonly caused by Actinomyces israelii [1,3,21–26] which is an endogenous commensal present in the oral and GI-tract flora. [9,10,12,22,27] Actinomycetes ...

Actinomycosis is a chronic bacterial infection caused by Actinomyces israelii, a Gram-positive anaerobic bacterium typically found in the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract. This infection can ...

From an actinomyces-like tonsillar granule a weakly gram-positive flexible motile anaerobic organism has been isolated that produces in pure culture rosettes and test-tube brush-like forms similar to ...

Actinomycosis in the maxilla is an uncommon infection with a predilection for males between the ages of 20 and 60, whose treatment is antibiotic therapy associated or not with surgical excision.

In this report, a rare case of primary gastric actinomycosis diagnosed in a gastroscopic biopsy is discussed.

Australian Pathology is lobbying the federal government for more funding amid increasing demands on the sector. What will the cost to patients be?

Actinomycosis is the name applied to the condition resulting from invasion and growth in the body tissues of a micro-organism, the actinomyces. In 1877 Bollinger 3 described actinomycosis in ...

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is one of the 10 most commonly diagnosed solid tumors. Most RCCs are histologically defined as clear cell, comprising approximately 75% of diagnoses. However, the remaining ...