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