Tuberculosis in a Psychiatric Hospital in the state of Goiás, Brazil [PDF]
, 2006 OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of infection, disease and eventual institutional outbreak of tuberculosis in a psychiatric hospital using the PPD test, as well as testing for mycobacteria in material collected from the respiratory tree and using
Costa, Hindenburg Cruvinel Guimarães Da +3 more
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Mycobacterium chelonae infection involving the auricle [PDF]
QJM, 2011 A 30-year-old man presented with a left side diffuse erythematous nodular, nontender, ulcerated auricular and periauricular skin lesion with serosanguineous discharge (Figure 1) after bilateral cervical lymphadenitis, which did not respond to a 6-month antituberculous medical therapy (i.e.
T.-C. Liu, Yen-Hung Lin
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Sporotrichoid-Like Spread of Cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae in an Immunocompromised Patient
Case Reports in Dermatological Medicine, 2017 Mycobacterium chelonae is a rapidly growing mycobacterium found in water and soil that can cause local cutaneous infections in immunocompetent hosts but more frequently affects immunocompromised patients.
Daria Marley Kemp +4 more
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Autofluorescence as a tool for structural analysis of biofilms formed by nonpigmented rapidly growing mycobacteria [PDF]
, 2013 The structure of biofilms formed by seven nonpigmented rapidly growing mycobacteria, including saprophytes and opportunistic species, was analyzed.
Estebana, Jaime +4 more
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Saltwater injury: a case of chronic cutaneous Mycobacterium marinum infection
, 2023 Medical Journal of Australia, Volume 219, Issue 6, Page 250-252, September 2023.
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General Overview on Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, Biofilms, and Human Infection [PDF]
, 2015 Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are emergent pathogens whose importance in human health has been growing. After being regarded mainly as etiological agents of opportunist infections in HIV patients, they have also been recognized as etiological agents ...
Faria, Sónia +2 more
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Mycobacterium chelonae in a tectonic corneal graft
Oman Journal of Ophthalmology, 2016 Atypical mycobacterial infections of the cornea can present with nonspecific inflammatory changes and graft rejection, with no obvious focus to culture and a subsequent delay to diagnosis. These pathogens are well documented in the literature following laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis but have rarely been described following corneal transplant ...
Oliver Comyn +3 more
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Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme versus Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis for Typing Mycobacterium abscessus Isolates [PDF]
, 2014 Outbreaks of infections by rapidly growing mycobacteria following invasive procedures, such as ophthalmological, laparoscopic, arthroscopic, plastic, and cardiac surgeries, mesotherapy, and vaccination, have been detected in Brazil since 1998. Members of
Batista Lima, Karla Valeria +13 more
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Cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae in a Patient with Sjogren’s Syndrome
Infection and Drug Resistance, 2021 Lu Guo,1 Sha Lv,1 Jing Zeng,1 Jiayu Yang,2 Baihui Shan,1 Fuqiu Li1 1Department of Dermatology, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, China-Japan Union Hospital of ...
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Prevalence and diversity of Chlamydiales and other amoeba-resisting bacteria in domestic drinking water systems. [PDF]
, 2016 A growing number of human infections incriminate environmental bacteria that have evolved virulent mechanisms to resist amoebae and use them as a replicative niche. These bacteria are designated amoeba-resisting bacteria (ARB).
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