Successful Triple‐Antibiotic Therapy for Cutaneous Infection Due to Mycobacterium chelonae
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Disseminated cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae infection.
Over the last two decades, a rising proportion of mycobacterial infections have been caused by nontuberculous species such as Mycobacterium chelonae.1-3 Belonging to the M. fortuitum complex,4 M. chelonae is an acidfast bacillus (AFB) that grows rapidly compared with the more common M. tuberculosis. Disseminated cutaneous manifestations are the most common presentations and occur in patients wh...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/517181