Cutaneous Mycobacterium fortuitum Infection: Successfully Treated with Amikacin and Ofloxacin Combination

Cutaneous infections caused by atypical mycobacteria are uncommon and the diagnosis can be missed unless there is strong clinical suspicion supported by laboratory confirmation. We report a case of chronic discharging sinus caused by Mycobacterium fortuitum in a young healthy immunocompetent individ...

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Autores principales: Sethi, Sunil, Arora, Shilpa, Gupta, Vikas, Kumar, Shiv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Therapeutic Round
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25071259
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.135491
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description Cutaneous infections caused by atypical mycobacteria are uncommon and the diagnosis can be missed unless there is strong clinical suspicion supported by laboratory confirmation. We report a case of chronic discharging sinus caused by Mycobacterium fortuitum in a young healthy immunocompetent individual. The patient recovered completely following amikacin and ofloxacin therapy.
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spelling pubmed-41032762014-07-28 Cutaneous Mycobacterium fortuitum Infection: Successfully Treated with Amikacin and Ofloxacin Combination Sethi, Sunil Arora, Shilpa Gupta, Vikas Kumar, Shiv Indian J Dermatol Therapeutic Round Cutaneous infections caused by atypical mycobacteria are uncommon and the diagnosis can be missed unless there is strong clinical suspicion supported by laboratory confirmation. We report a case of chronic discharging sinus caused by Mycobacterium fortuitum in a young healthy immunocompetent individual. The patient recovered completely following amikacin and ofloxacin therapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4103276/ /pubmed/25071259 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.135491 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Cutaneous Mycobacterium fortuitum Infection: Successfully Treated with Amikacin and Ofloxacin Combination
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title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous Mycobacterium fortuitum Infection: Successfully Treated with Amikacin and Ofloxacin Combination
title_short Cutaneous Mycobacterium fortuitum Infection: Successfully Treated with Amikacin and Ofloxacin Combination
title_sort cutaneous mycobacterium fortuitum infection: successfully treated with amikacin and ofloxacin combination
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4103276/
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