Life-Threatening Mycoplasma hominis Mediastinitis
Open Access
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 29 (6) , 1529-1537
- https://doi.org/10.1086/313529
Abstract
Mycoplasma hominis infections are easily missed because conventional methods for bacterial detection may fail. Here, 8 cases of septic mediastinitisKeywords
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