Open AccessChronic Cutaneous Mycobacterium haemophilum Infection Acquired from Coral Injury
Author(s) -
Stephanie Smith,
Geoff Taylor,
E A Fanning
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/377267
Subject(s) - fastidious organism , medicine , coral , mycobacterium , pathology , biology , bacteria , ecology , tuberculosis , genetics
A 61-year-old previously healthy man developed chronic dermal granulomata in his right arm after receiving a coral injury in Thailand. After 7 biopsies, infection caused by Mycobacterium haemophilum was diagnosed. This case highlights the difficulty of isolating this fastidious organism in the laboratory and suggests that seawater or coral was the source of the infection.
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