Journal article
Mycobacterium fortuitum skin infections after subcutaneous injections with Vietnamese traditional medicine: a case report
- Abstract:
-
Background: Iatrogenic skin and soft tissue infections by rapidly growing mycobacteria are described with increasing frequency, especially among immunocompromised patients.
Expand abstract
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...
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Authors
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Infectious Diseases Journal website
- Volume:
- 14
- Article number:
- 550
- Publication date:
- 2014-11-11
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-10-09
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1471-2334
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- UUID:
-
uuid:053a2c8c-c102-40df-b269-a60c7104daab
- Local pid:
- pubs:500275
- Source identifiers:
-
500275
- Deposit date:
- 2014-12-25
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Lan et al
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- © 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.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
Metrics
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record