Mycobacterium mucogenicum Hand Infection in an Intravenous Drug Abuser

Mycobacterium mucogenicum is a rapidly growing mycobacterium found ubiquitously in water sources. It has been reported to cause widespread infections with infection entry from wound or central venous catheters especially in immunocompromised patients. Diagnosis is made from blood cultures which may...

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Autores principales: Basnet, Sijan, Mir, Izza, Dhital, Rashmi, Basnet, Garima, Patel, Nitin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5925101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29850301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1258649
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author Basnet, Sijan
Mir, Izza
Dhital, Rashmi
Basnet, Garima
Patel, Nitin
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Dhital, Rashmi
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description Mycobacterium mucogenicum is a rapidly growing mycobacterium found ubiquitously in water sources. It has been reported to cause widespread infections with infection entry from wound or central venous catheters especially in immunocompromised patients. Diagnosis is made from blood cultures which may take at least a week. Management includes removal of the source or drainage of wound infections and combination antimicrobial therapy.
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spelling pubmed-59251012018-05-30 Mycobacterium mucogenicum Hand Infection in an Intravenous Drug Abuser Basnet, Sijan Mir, Izza Dhital, Rashmi Basnet, Garima Patel, Nitin Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Mycobacterium mucogenicum is a rapidly growing mycobacterium found ubiquitously in water sources. It has been reported to cause widespread infections with infection entry from wound or central venous catheters especially in immunocompromised patients. Diagnosis is made from blood cultures which may take at least a week. Management includes removal of the source or drainage of wound infections and combination antimicrobial therapy. Hindawi 2018-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5925101/ /pubmed/29850301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1258649 Text en Copyright © 2018 Sijan Basnet et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mycobacterium mucogenicum Hand Infection in an Intravenous Drug Abuser
title Mycobacterium mucogenicum Hand Infection in an Intravenous Drug Abuser
title_full Mycobacterium mucogenicum Hand Infection in an Intravenous Drug Abuser
title_fullStr Mycobacterium mucogenicum Hand Infection in an Intravenous Drug Abuser
title_full_unstemmed Mycobacterium mucogenicum Hand Infection in an Intravenous Drug Abuser
title_short Mycobacterium mucogenicum Hand Infection in an Intravenous Drug Abuser
title_sort mycobacterium mucogenicum hand infection in an intravenous drug abuser
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5925101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29850301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1258649
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