Pedicure-Associated Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Infection: An Endemic Disease
Author(s) -
Jason E. Stout,
Lara Beth Gadkowski,
Santosh Rath,
J. A. Alspaugh,
Melissa B. Miller,
G. M. Cox
Publication year - 2011
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 - 10.1093/cid/cir539
Subject(s) - nontuberculous mycobacteria , mycobacterium chelonae , medicine , outbreak , salon , epidemiology , incidence (geometry) , population , infection control , mycobacterium , veterinary medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , environmental health , biology , virology , tuberculosis , pathology , physics , sociology , anthropology , optics
Pedicure-associated nontuberculous mycobacterial furunculosis has been reported in the setting of either outbreaks or sporadic case reports. The epidemiology of these infections is not well understood.
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