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Abdominal and pelvic actinomycosis due to longstanding intrauterine device: a slow and devastating infection

Actinomycosis is a chronic or subacute bacterial infection characterized by large abscess formation, caused mainly by the gram-positive non-acid-fast, anaerobic, or microaerophilic/capnophilic, obligate parasites bacteria from the Actinomyces genus. Although pelvic inflammatory disease is an entity...

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Autores principales: Nakahira, Evelyn Sue, Maximiano, Linda Ferreira, Lima, Fabiana Roberto, Ussami, Edson Yassushi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: São Paulo, SP: Universidade de São Paulo, Hospital Universitário 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28536687
http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2017.001