Cutaneous Infection Caused by Plant PathogenColletotrichum gloeosporioides

Disseminated cutaneous infection caused by Mycobacterium colombiense.

We wish to report a case of an apparently immunocompetent 17-year-old boy with disseminated cutaneous infection caused by M. colombiense. The patient presented with deep asymptomatic erythematous nodules on his face and extremities for 4 months without any preceding history of trauma or surgery. Some of the nodules on his extremities developed into discharging ulcers, others featured slightly s...

Cutaneous granulomatous infection caused by Scopulariopsis brevicaulis.

Subcutaneous hyalohyphomycosis caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides.

The coelomycete Colletotrichum gloeosporioides was isolated in pure culture from subcutaneous nodules of the left forearm and elbow of a farmer after traumatic injury. To our knowledge, we report the first case involving this fungus as an etiological agent of subcutaneous infection. The in vitro inhibitory activities of amphotericin B, itraconazole, ketoconazole, miconazole, flucytosine, and fl...

An unusual cutaneous infection caused by Mycobacterium marinum

Introduction.Mycobacterium marinum is a non-tubercular mycobacterium residing in fresh or salt water (in tropical or temperate areas); it is a fish and human pathogen, and in immunocompromised patients can cause severe cutaneous and subcutaneous infections. Case presentation. A 46-year-old white man who underwent immunosuppressive therapy was admitted to our department in May 2016 for skin lesi...

Cutaneous infection caused by a novel Francisella sp.

A 69-year-old patient presented with a tender, thickly crusted skin lesion of 1 week's duration. A bacterial culture swab taken from the underlying granular tissue yielded a pure isolate of a Gram-negative coccobacillus, presumptively identified as a novel Francisella species via 16S rRNA and multilocus gene sequence analysis.