@article{e39b97b136b44e0d953f17b0ec532a1a,
title = "The first case report of pediatric acute appendicitis caused by “Candidatus Actinobaculum timonae”",
abstract = "A 14-year-old boy presented to the hospital with pain in the right lower abdomen. His condition was diagnosed as acute appendicitis. An emergency operation was performed, and histopathological examination revealed an actinomycete-related organism in the excised appendicitis specimen. On 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, “Candidatus Actinobaculum timonae” was identified, which is the first known case in a pediatric patient.",
keywords = "16S rRNA, Abdominal actinomycosis, Appendicitis, Candidatus actinobaculum timonae",
author = "Asef Iqbal and Takumi Fujimura and Masayoshi Shinjoh and Munehiro Furuichi and Takashi Iimori and Tomoshige Umeyama and Tsuyoshi Ishida and Shojiro Morinaga and Isamu Kamimaki and Kiyofumi Ohkusu and Takao Takahashi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases",
year = "2022",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1016/j.jiac.2021.11.023",
language = "English",
volume = "28",
pages = "451--454",
journal = "Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy",
issn = "1341-321X",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "3",
}
