Primary cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old medical intern from needle-stick injury: a case report

The authors report a case of cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old African male medical intern who contracted primary cutaneous from a needle-stick injury. Cultures of pus aspirated from the finger initially grew Staphylococcus aureus that led to a delay in the diagnosis.

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Autores principales: Karoney, Mercy Jelagat, Kaumbuki, Erastus Kanake, Koech, Mathew Kiptonui, Lelei, Lectary Kibor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4317210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25678972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.143
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author Karoney, Mercy Jelagat
Kaumbuki, Erastus Kanake
Koech, Mathew Kiptonui
Lelei, Lectary Kibor
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spelling pubmed-43172102015-02-12 Primary cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old medical intern from needle-stick injury: a case report Karoney, Mercy Jelagat Kaumbuki, Erastus Kanake Koech, Mathew Kiptonui Lelei, Lectary Kibor Clin Case Rep Case Reports The authors report a case of cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old African male medical intern who contracted primary cutaneous from a needle-stick injury. Cultures of pus aspirated from the finger initially grew Staphylococcus aureus that led to a delay in the diagnosis. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015-01 2014-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4317210/ /pubmed/25678972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.143 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Karoney, Mercy Jelagat
Kaumbuki, Erastus Kanake
Koech, Mathew Kiptonui
Lelei, Lectary Kibor
Primary cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old medical intern from needle-stick injury: a case report
title Primary cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old medical intern from needle-stick injury: a case report
title_full Primary cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old medical intern from needle-stick injury: a case report
title_fullStr Primary cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old medical intern from needle-stick injury: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Primary cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old medical intern from needle-stick injury: a case report
title_short Primary cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old medical intern from needle-stick injury: a case report
title_sort primary cutaneous tuberculosis in a 27-year-old medical intern from needle-stick injury: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4317210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25678972
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.143
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