Postoperative Israeli Actinomycosis Infection
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Actinomycosis is a chronic suppurative disease caused by Actinomyces israelii, this is a saprophyte of the oral cavity, amygdaline crypts and the gastrointestinal tract in 30% of healthy subjects. It is a rare disease with an incidence of 5 / 100,000. Most of the time it presents as a complication to the use of bisphosphonates or immunosuppression as ma-lignancy or diabetes mellitus and rarely to oral procedures.
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