Journal article
Cutaneous infection due to Mycobacterium kansasii
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, Vol.38(3), pp.173-175
11/01/2000
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(00)00195-4
PMID: 11109017
Abstract
A patient presented with chronic leg ulcers after a mowing accident. He received several courses of antibiotics for presumed cellulitis, underwent surgical debridment, and was treated empirically with cyclosporin for presumed pyoderma gangrenosum, all without improvement. Cultures from prior debridment revealed
Mycobacterium kansasii, and he was successfully treated with triple antituberculous regimen. Cutaneous infections due to this slow growing Mycobacterium are rare and may resemble cellulitis or sporotrichosis.
Mycobacterium kansasii should be included in the differential diagnosis of skin infections with an indolent course and lack of response to antibiotics.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Cutaneous infection due to Mycobacterium kansasii
- Creators
- Behzad Razavi - Washington University in St. LouisMark G Cleveland - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, Vol.38(3), pp.173-175
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0732-8893(00)00195-4
- PMID
- 11109017
- NLM abbreviation
- Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
- ISSN
- 0732-8893
- eISSN
- 1879-0070
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Number of pages
- 3
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2000
- Academic Unit
- Dermatology
- Record Identifier
- 9985164051302771
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