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  • Title: Disseminated skin infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum in an immunocompetent patient.
    Author: Silvestre Salvador JF, Betlloch MI, Alfonso R, Ramón RL, Morell AM, Navas J.
    Journal: J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol; 1998 Sep; 11(2):158-61. PubMed ID: 9784044.
    Abstract:
    Skin infections caused by atypical rapid-growing mycobacteria, which used considered to be unusual, have become more frequent, especially in immunodepressed patients. Clinical cutaneous disease with these pathogens seems to follow two patterns: in the immunocompetent host, a traumatic injury is followed by the development of localized abscess formation; but in the immunocompromised individual there is no history of trauma and the patient presents with multiple subcutaneous nodular lesions. We describe a rare case of an immunocompetent young woman with disseminated skin infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum. We emphasize the diagnostic and therapeutic problems associated with such infections.
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