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Disseminated cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae infection secondary to an indwelling catheter in an immunocompetent host [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2023
Background: Mycobacterium chelonae is a species of nontuberculous mycobacteria that typically causes localized cutaneous disease in immunocompetent hosts.
Nicholas D. Riopel, Kimberly Wood, William Stokes   +2 more
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Mycobacterium chelonae infection of the parotid gland

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases, 2012
Mycobacterium chelonae can cause numerous infections, including lung disease, local cutaneous disease, osteomyelitis, joint infections and ocular disease. With the exception of lung disease, these syndromes commonly develop after direct inoculation.
Hamid S Shaaban, Sharma L Bishop, Laila Menon, Jihad Slim   +3 more
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Mycobacterium chelonae Is an Ubiquitous Atypical Mycobacterium [PDF]

Case Reports in Dermatology, 2015
The type of cutaneous infection varies mainly according to the patient's immune status, and the disseminated form is mostly found in the context of immunosuppression.
Miguel Pinto-Gouveia, Ana Gameiro, Leonor Ramos, José Carlos Cardoso, Maria Manuel Brites, Óscar Tellechea, Américo Figueiredo   +6 more
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Investigating hospital Mycobacterium chelonae infection using whole genome sequencing and hybrid assembly.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterium that is a common cause of nosocomial infections. Here we describe investigation of a possible nosocomial transmission of M.
Christopher H Gu, Chunyu Zhao, Casey Hofstaedter, Pablo Tebas, Laurel Glaser, Robert Baldassano, Kyle Bittinger, Lisa M Mattei, Frederic D Bushman   +8 more
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Variation among human, veterinary and environmental Mycobacterium chelonae-abscessus complex isolates observed using core genome phylogenomic analysis, targeted gene comparison, and anti-microbial susceptibility patterns.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Mycobacterium chelonae is a member of the Mycobacterium chelonae-abscessus complex and a cause of opportunistic disease in fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals including humans.
Susan B Fogelson, Alvin C Camus, W Walter Lorenz, Ravikiran Vasireddy, Sruthi Vasireddy, Terry Smith, Barbara A Brown-Elliott, Richard J Wallace, Nabeeh A Hasan, Udo Reischl, Susan Sanchez   +10 more
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A Report of Two Uncommon Cases of Mycobacterium chelonae with Localized and Disseminated Skin and Soft Tissue Infection [PDF]

Infectious Disease Reports
Background: Mycobacterium chelonae is a ubiquitous, rapidly growing, nontuberculous mycobacteria that primarily affects immunocompromised patients. The most common presentation is an atypical, chronic skin and soft tissue infection.
Libardo Rueda Prada, Marko Gorasevic, Tatjana Gavrancic, Aayushi J. Rajani, Jason C. Sluzevich, Sangeeta Nair-Collins, Ravi V. Durvasula   +6 more
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Cutaneous Coinfection of Cytomegalovirus and Mycobacterium chelonae Accelerated by Immunosuppression. [PDF]

Case Rep Pathol, 2021
A mildly diabetic 58-year-old male had traumatic ulceration on the left popliteal fossa, and the lesion progressed to a painful 6 cm deep ulcer. After surgical debridement and skin grafting, ulceration recurred.
Tsutsumi Y, Odani K, Kaneko Y, Hashizume H, Tachibana M.   +4 more
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Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Caused by Mycobacterium chelonae: More Common Than Expected?

Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 2019
Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacterium, which causes infections of the human skin and soft tissue. Despite an increasing incidence of such infections, patients are often misdiagnosed.
Ugur Uslu, Olga Böhm, Franz Heppt, Michael Sticherling   +3 more
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Cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae in a Patient with Sjogren's Syndrome. [PDF]

Infect Drug Resist, 2021
A case of cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae infection in a patient with Sjogren's syndrome (SS) was misdiagnosed as sporotrichosis. A 56-year-old female patient was admitted to another hospital. Based on results of the histopathological examination and secretion culture obtained at the other hospital, the patient was diagnosed with sporotrichosis and ...
Guo L, Lv S, Zeng J, Yang J, Shan B, Li F.   +5 more
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Omadacycline for treatment of Mycobacterium chelonae skin infection. [PDF]

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent), 2020
Mycobacterium chelonae can be difficult to treat because of inherent resistance to many available antimicrobials. We present a case of a multidrug-resistant M.
Frizzell M, Carr E, Brust K.
europepmc   +2 more sources