Green Nail Syndrome (Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nail Infection): Two Cases Successfully Treated with Topical Nadifloxacin, an Acne Medication

Green nail syndrome (GNS) caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common bacterial nail infection. The treatment of GNS is challenging in many cases and recommendations based on clinical trials are lacking. We report two cases with GNS successfully treated with off-label use of topical nadiflox...

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Autores principales: Müller, Simon, Ebnöther, Myriam, Itin, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Published online: July, 2014
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152926/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25202260
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000365863
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description Green nail syndrome (GNS) caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common bacterial nail infection. The treatment of GNS is challenging in many cases and recommendations based on clinical trials are lacking. We report two cases with GNS successfully treated with off-label use of topical nadifloxacin, a fluoroquinolone approved for acne and bacterial skin infections in some countries.
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spelling pubmed-41529262014-09-08 Green Nail Syndrome (Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nail Infection): Two Cases Successfully Treated with Topical Nadifloxacin, an Acne Medication Müller, Simon Ebnöther, Myriam Itin, Peter Case Rep Dermatol Published online: July, 2014 Green nail syndrome (GNS) caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the most common bacterial nail infection. The treatment of GNS is challenging in many cases and recommendations based on clinical trials are lacking. We report two cases with GNS successfully treated with off-label use of topical nadifloxacin, a fluoroquinolone approved for acne and bacterial skin infections in some countries. S. Karger AG 2014-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4152926/ /pubmed/25202260 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000365863 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: July, 2014
Müller, Simon
Ebnöther, Myriam
Itin, Peter
Green Nail Syndrome (Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nail Infection): Two Cases Successfully Treated with Topical Nadifloxacin, an Acne Medication
title Green Nail Syndrome (Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nail Infection): Two Cases Successfully Treated with Topical Nadifloxacin, an Acne Medication
title_full Green Nail Syndrome (Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nail Infection): Two Cases Successfully Treated with Topical Nadifloxacin, an Acne Medication
title_fullStr Green Nail Syndrome (Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nail Infection): Two Cases Successfully Treated with Topical Nadifloxacin, an Acne Medication
title_full_unstemmed Green Nail Syndrome (Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nail Infection): Two Cases Successfully Treated with Topical Nadifloxacin, an Acne Medication
title_short Green Nail Syndrome (Pseudomonas aeruginosa Nail Infection): Two Cases Successfully Treated with Topical Nadifloxacin, an Acne Medication
title_sort green nail syndrome (pseudomonas aeruginosa nail infection): two cases successfully treated with topical nadifloxacin, an acne medication
topic Published online: July, 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4152926/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000365863
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