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Mycobacterium abscessus skin infection after tattooing - Case report
Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing mycobacterium that has been affecting people undergoing invasive procedures, such as videosurgery and mesotherapy. This bacterium has global distribution, being found in numerous niches. The frequency of published reports of infection by rapidly growing m...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631242/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26560222 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153362 |
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author | de Sousa, Pétra Pereira Cruz, Rossilene Conceição da Silva Schettini, Antonio Pedro Mendes Westphal, Danielle Cristine |
author_facet | de Sousa, Pétra Pereira Cruz, Rossilene Conceição da Silva Schettini, Antonio Pedro Mendes Westphal, Danielle Cristine |
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description | Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing mycobacterium that has been affecting people undergoing invasive procedures, such as videosurgery and mesotherapy. This bacterium has global distribution, being found in numerous niches. The frequency of published reports of infection by rapidly growing mycobacteria associated with tattooing procedures has increased in recent years. However, in Brazil there were no case reports of M. abscessus after tattooing in the literature until now. In this paper, we describe the case of a patient with a nine-month history of lesion on a tattoo site. The diagnosis of infection with Mycobacterium abscessus was established by correlation between dermatological and histopathological aspects, culture and molecular biology techniques. The patient had significant improvement of symptoms with the use of clarithromycin monotherapy. |
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spelling | pubmed-46312422015-11-04 Mycobacterium abscessus skin infection after tattooing - Case report de Sousa, Pétra Pereira Cruz, Rossilene Conceição da Silva Schettini, Antonio Pedro Mendes Westphal, Danielle Cristine An Bras Dermatol Case Report Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing mycobacterium that has been affecting people undergoing invasive procedures, such as videosurgery and mesotherapy. This bacterium has global distribution, being found in numerous niches. The frequency of published reports of infection by rapidly growing mycobacteria associated with tattooing procedures has increased in recent years. However, in Brazil there were no case reports of M. abscessus after tattooing in the literature until now. In this paper, we describe the case of a patient with a nine-month history of lesion on a tattoo site. The diagnosis of infection with Mycobacterium abscessus was established by correlation between dermatological and histopathological aspects, culture and molecular biology techniques. The patient had significant improvement of symptoms with the use of clarithromycin monotherapy. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4631242/ /pubmed/26560222 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153362 Text en © 2015 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report de Sousa, Pétra Pereira Cruz, Rossilene Conceição da Silva Schettini, Antonio Pedro Mendes Westphal, Danielle Cristine Mycobacterium abscessus skin infection after tattooing - Case report |
title | Mycobacterium abscessus skin infection after tattooing -
Case report |
title_full | Mycobacterium abscessus skin infection after tattooing -
Case report |
title_fullStr | Mycobacterium abscessus skin infection after tattooing -
Case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Mycobacterium abscessus skin infection after tattooing -
Case report |
title_short | Mycobacterium abscessus skin infection after tattooing -
Case report |
title_sort | mycobacterium abscessus skin infection after tattooing -
case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631242/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26560222 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153362 |
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