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| Actinomycosis is a chronic suppurative infection of the
cervicofacial region caused by Actinomyces species, which are anaerobic,
gram-positive filamentous bacteria. Actinomycosis is a disease of antiquity, having most likely
infected the jaw of a fossil rhinoceros (1) and the ribs of a man
discovered in southeastern Ontario, Canada, who by radiocarbon dating
lived 230 A. In 1982 it deemed
hyperbaric oxygen therapy unacceptable for arhritis, investigational for
chronic osteomyelitis and as-yet-unproven for actinomycosis, a fungal
infection. |
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