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

• Main Authors: Evelyn Sue Nakahira (Author), Linda Ferreira Maximiano (Author), Fabiana Roberto Lima (Author), Edson Yassushi Ussami (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of São Paulo, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...