Spinal actinomycosis: a rare disease.

Neurol India

Department of Neurosurgery, NIMHANS, Bangalore, India.

Published: August 2010

Actinomycosis is an indolent, slowly progressive infection caused by Actinomyces species. Of human actinomycosis, the spinal form is rare and actinomycosis-related spinal neurological deficit is uncommon. We report two cases with cervical and dorsal actinomycosis and one of them with spinal neurological deficit.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0028-3886.63794DOI Listing

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