Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection Occurring after Exposure to Mycobacterium marinum
Cutaneous infections caused by Mycobacterium marinum have been attributed to aquarium or fish exposure after a break in the skin barrier. In most instances, the upper limbs and fingers account for a majority of the infection sites. While previous cases of necrotizing soft tissue infections related t...
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| author | Shivani S. Patel M. Lance Tavana M. Sean Boger Soe Soe Win Bassam H. Rimawi |
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| description | Cutaneous infections caused by Mycobacterium marinum have been attributed to aquarium or fish exposure after a break in the skin barrier. In most instances, the upper limbs and fingers account for a majority of the infection sites. While previous cases of necrotizing soft tissue infections related to M. marinum have been documented, the importance of our presenting case is to illustrate the aggressive nature of M. marinum resulting in a persistent necrotizing soft tissue infection of a finger that required multiple aggressive wound debridements, followed by an amputation of the affected extremity, in order to hasten recovery. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-00e86388a40c4aee9aa41f2ae1ae8c6f2025-02-03T01:29:07ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332014-01-01201410.1155/2014/702613702613Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection Occurring after Exposure to Mycobacterium marinumShivani S. Patel0M. Lance Tavana1M. Sean Boger2Soe Soe Win3Bassam H. Rimawi4Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine and Dermatology, Medical University of South Carolina, 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USADivision of Plastic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USADivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USADivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 96 Jonathan Lucas Street, Charleston, SC 29425, USADivision of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, School of Medicine, Emory University, 550 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30308, USACutaneous infections caused by Mycobacterium marinum have been attributed to aquarium or fish exposure after a break in the skin barrier. In most instances, the upper limbs and fingers account for a majority of the infection sites. While previous cases of necrotizing soft tissue infections related to M. marinum have been documented, the importance of our presenting case is to illustrate the aggressive nature of M. marinum resulting in a persistent necrotizing soft tissue infection of a finger that required multiple aggressive wound debridements, followed by an amputation of the affected extremity, in order to hasten recovery.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/702613 |
| spellingShingle | Shivani S. Patel M. Lance Tavana M. Sean Boger Soe Soe Win Bassam H. Rimawi Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection Occurring after Exposure to Mycobacterium marinum Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection Occurring after Exposure to Mycobacterium marinum |
| title_full | Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection Occurring after Exposure to Mycobacterium marinum |
| title_fullStr | Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection Occurring after Exposure to Mycobacterium marinum |
| title_full_unstemmed | Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection Occurring after Exposure to Mycobacterium marinum |
| title_short | Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection Occurring after Exposure to Mycobacterium marinum |
| title_sort | necrotizing soft tissue infection occurring after exposure to mycobacterium marinum |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/702613 |
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