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Mycobacterium fortuitum skin infections after subcutaneous injections with Vietnamese traditional medicine: a case report
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Background: Iatrogenic skin and soft tissue infections by rapidly growing mycobacteria are described with increasing frequency, especially among immunocompromised patients.
Case presentation: Here, we present an immunocompetent patient with extensive Mycobacterium fortuitum skin and soft tissue infections after subcutaneous injections to relieve joint pains by a Vietnamese traditional medicine practitioner. Moreover, we present dilemmas faced in less resourceful settings, influencing patient management.
Conclusion: This case illustrates the pathogenic potential of rapid growing mycobacteria in medical or non-medical skin penetrating procedures, their world-wide distribution and demonstrates the dilemmas faced in settings with fewer resources.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s12879-014-0550-z
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- BioMed Central
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- BMC Infectious Diseases More from this journal
- Volume:
- 14
- Article number:
- 550
- Publication date:
- 2014-11-11
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-10-09
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1471-2334
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English
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500275
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- Copyright date:
- 2014
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- © 2014 Lan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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