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Infection of wounds with actinomyces.
Actinomvcosis is now so widely known as a patilological entity that the presentation of another series of cases should be justified by at least some unusual feature of the syndrome or a contribution to tile treatment of this difficult disease. The fact that over 80 per cent of cases in humans occur in tile gastro-intestinal or respiratory system (Boyd 1943) is strong evidence in favour of infec...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1919
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(01)30174-5