Fernando Cobo, Virginia Pérez-Carrasco, Mª Carmen Ortega-Gavilán, José Antonio García-Salcedo, Jose María Navarro-Marí
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Abstract
Fusobacterium gonidiaformans is an anaerobic Gram-negative bacillus rarely reported as a cause of human infection. We recently dealt with a woman with fever in whom this pathogen was isolated in pure culture in blood cultures in pure culture. We have also searched the literature for all cases of this disease.
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