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EXPANDER OR IMPLANT? MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM INFECTION AFTER BREAST RECONSTRUCTION: CASE REPORT

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Infections associated with breast implants represent an important postoperative complication. Although bacterial infections caused by Gram-positive cocci are the most frequent causes of surgical site infections (SSIs), rapidly growing mycobacteria such ...
Felipe Meireles Dória, Dayana Souza Fram, Matheus Negri Boschiero, Jorge Cezar Pereira de Castro Filho, Eduardo Alexandrino de Medeiros   +4 more
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Natural history of Mycobacterium fortuitum pulmonary infection presenting with migratory infiltrates: a case report with microbiological analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Presence of Mycobacterium fortuitum in respiratory tracts usually indicates mere colonization or transient infection, whereas true pulmonary infection occurs in patients with gastroesophageal disease.
Satoshi Okamori, Takanori Asakura, Tomoyasu Nishimura, Eiko Tamizu, Makoto Ishii, Mitsunori Yoshida, Hanako Fukano, Yuichiro Hayashi, Masaki Fujita, Yoshihiko Hoshino, Tomoko Betsuyaku, Naoki Hasegawa   +11 more
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A Review on Environmental Mycobacteria in Iran

Medical Laboratory Journal, 2014
Mycobacterium genus, including pathogenic and environmental species, is called non-tuberculosis mycobacteria. In this review, we assessed the research about the frequency of non-tuberculosis mycobacteria in Iran. The analyses showed that there are 16 and
Livani, S., Ghaemi, EA
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Brazilian cerrado plants active against Mycobacterium fortuitum

, 2005
Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rapidly-growing species of bacteria, ubiquitous in the environment and related to important human mycobacterioses. It has been isolated from blood, abscesses, the endocardium and surgical and traumatic wounds.
Arantes, V. P. [UNESP], Santos, L. C. [UNESP], Leite, Clarice Queico Fujimura [UNESP], Sato, D. N., Vilegas, Wagner [UNESP]   +4 more
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Severe pneumonia and bloodstream dissemination caused by Mycobacterium houstonense in a patient with achalasia: clinical importance of genospecies typing

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Infections caused by members of the Mycobacterium fortuitum complex are generally mild and confined to skin and soft tissues, while severe disease in immunocompetent individuals is uncommon.
Sieshem Bindraban, Laura Hughes, Monika Fliss, Lilli Gard, Onno Akkerman, Bhanu Sinha, Erwin Raangs, Yvonne de Vries, Corien Veenstra, Erik Bathoorn   +9 more
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Plantas do cerrado brasileiro com atividade contra Mycobacterium fortuitum

, 2005
Mycobacterium fortuitum é uma micobactéria de crescimento rápido, ubíquo na natureza e relacionada a micobacteriose de importância médica. Ela tem sido isolada de bacteremias, abscessos, endocardites, feridas cirúrgicas e traumáticas.
Vilegas, W., Arantes, V.P., Santos, L.C., Sato, D.N., Leite, C.Q.F.   +4 more
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Mycobacterium fortuitum-induced surgical wound infection - a case report

, 2016
A 53-year-old healthy lady who underwent a planned laparoscopic surgery for the removal of gall stones presented with mildly tender fluctuant swelling along the line of surgical scar which did not respond in spite of various antibiotics.
Sandhya V Saoji, Vikrant Saoji, Kritika Singhal   +2 more
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Infection-Associated Mycobacterium Fortuitum Infection [PDF]

, 2017
Introduction: Mycobacterial species are unusual causes of skin and soft tissue infections and can be difficult to diagnose in the absence of consideration as they often require specific culture media and longer incubation times. We report a Mycobacterium
Huang, Dennis T., Lutwick, Larry
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Prosthetic Knee Joint Infection by Mycobacterium fortuitum

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental mycobacteria found in water, soil, and dust. They usually cause opportunistic infections in humans and animals.
Sharanya Pillai, Sitsabesan Chokkalingam, Tessa Antony, Tamizhselvi Nagalingam, Sarmi Chandramohan Valarmathi   +4 more
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Unusual clinical presentation of Mycobacterium fortuitum infection in an immunocompetent woman

, 2007
The Mycobacterium fortuitum group of rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacteria is an uncommon cause of renal infection, particularly in otherwise healthy hosts. We describe a case of nephritis due to M.
B. Saddi, SADDI B, C. Serra, SERRA, CORRADO, A. Manzin, M. Pautasso, MANZIN, ALDO, PAUTASSO M, G. Loi, LOI G   +9 more
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