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Disseminated skin infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum in an immunocompetent patient
Author(s) -
Salvador J.F. Silvestre,
Betlloch M.I.,
Alfonso R.,
Ramón R.L.,
Morell A.M.,
Navas J.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of the european academy of dermatology and venereology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.655
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1468-3083
pISSN - 0926-9959
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3083.1998.tb00771.x
Subject(s) - mycobacterium fortuitum , medicine , dermatology , abscess , skin infection , mycobacterium infections , disease , mycobacterium , pathology , surgery , staphylococcus aureus , tuberculosis , bacteria , biology , genetics
Skin infections caused by atypical rapid‐growing mycobacteria, which used considered to be unusual, have become more frequent, especially in immunodepressed patients. Clinical cutaneous disease with these pathogens seems to follow two patterns: in the immunocompetent host, a traumatic injury is followed by the development of localized abscess formation; but in the immunocompromised individual there is no history of trauma and the patient presents with multiple subcutaneous nodular lesions. We describe a rare case of an immunocompetent young woman with disseminated skin infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum. We emphasize the diagnostic and therapeutic problems associated with such infections.