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Surgical wound infection following open humeral fracture caused by Mycobacterium houstonense: a case report

BACKGROUND: Historically Mycobacterium houstonense belongs to the unnamed third biovariant complex of the Mycobacterium fortuitum group, which are sorbitol positive. To date, there have been few reports of human infection induced by M. houstonense worldwide. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the case o...

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Autores principales: Tian, Lei, Zhang, Zhen, Chen, Zhongju, Sun, Ziyong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31014284
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-3979-2