Objective: To summarize clinical features and treatments in reported cases of actinomycotic
pelvic abscess occuring in women using intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUD), and to …

A review of the literature on pelvic actinomycosis reveals that actinomycetes normally reside
in the female genital tract. Therefore the identification of actinomycetes in the vagina or …

This taxon is one of the major phyla in the domain Bacteria, as inferred from its branching
pattern in the 16S rRNA gene tree (Garrity and Holt, 2001; Ludwig and Klenk, 2005) and …

Pelvic inflammatory disease is usually caused byChlamydia trachomatisorNeisseria
gonorrhoeae. Chlamydiae and gonococci are primary pathogens of the cervix and often …

The family Actinomycetaceae was created by Buchanan in 1918 and was originally used to
accommodate many diverse organisms such as members of the genera Actinobacillus …

Background. Pelvic actinomycosis is a chronic suppurative inflammatory disease caused by
the anaerobic Gram-positive bacilli Actinomyces israelii. The propensity of this disease to …

A prospective longitudinal investigation was performed to study variations in the occurence
of Actinomyces israelii with reference to four microorganisms, staphylococ-ci, E. coli, P …

Vaginal colonization by Candida spp. was compared in 117 women fitted with an
intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD users) and in 100 women not wearing an IUCD …

Female genital Actinomyces infection is relatively rare, although strongly related to long-
lasting intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) application. An infective pathway has been …

Since the late 1960s, the potential relationship between the use of an intrauterine
contraceptive device (IUD) and the development of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) has …