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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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Autores principales: de Sousa, Pétra Pereira, Cruz, Rossilene Conceição da Silva, Schettini, Antonio Pedro Mendes, Westphal, Danielle Cristine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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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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.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26560222
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