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Arthritis due to Mycobacterium fortuitum

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1998
Mycobacterium fortuitum is classified as a rapidly growing mycobacterium (RGM) according to the Runyon classification. RGM are increasingly being recognized as human pathogens. Joint infection due to M. fortuitum is a rare, but serious disease. This report describes a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and septic arthritis of the ...
A A, Butt, A, Janney
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Urinary Mycobacterium fortuitum infection

Infection, 1990
Mycobacterium fortuitum, a common saprophyte usually found in water and soil, can also be isolated from sputum and gastric secretions of healthy carriers. Under certain conditions, significant clinical infections due to M. fortuitum do occur. Urinary tract infections are rarely caused by atypical mycobacteria.
B, Oren, R, Raz, H, Hass
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A Cutaneous Infection With Mycobacterium fortuitum

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 1994
We report the case of a 24-year-old man with a cutaneous Mycobacterium fortuitum infection. The investigation and management of this patient are discussed, and literature pertaining to this organism is reviewed. The importance of considering mycobacteria in the pathogenesis of chronic cutaneous disease is stressed.
M J, Carey, H M, Maclaren, M V, Miller
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Death Due to Mycobacterium Fortuitum

JAMA, 1961
M YCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM Cruz, 1 a rapidly growing acid-fast bacillus, has been studied extensively by Gordon and Smith, 2 Kushner, McMillen and Senderi, 3 and Gordon and Mihm. 4 It has been placed in Group 4 of Runyon's arbitrary separation of the "atypical" mycobacteria from human sources.
R F, CORPE, C E, SMITH, I, STERGUS
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Mycobacterium Fortuitum Corneal Ulcer

Archives of Ophthalmology, 1966
The atypical mycobacteria have been reported with increasing frequency as a cause of human disease, but they have not received attention in the literature as a cause of ocular pathology. Their detection and evaluation pose a difficult problem. Differentiation of the various species from each other and from tuberculosis cannot be accomplished on ...
D S, Levenson, C H, Harrison
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Osteomyelitis caused by mycobacterium fortuitum

Infection, 1977
A case of osteomylitis of the foot and ankle bones with subsequent complications is presented. Antibiotic therapy was unsuccessful and a below-knee amputation was performed. A comparison of the various Mycobacteria species and their role as etiologic agents in osteomyelitis follows.
A, Ohry, M, Brooks, T, Steinbach, R, Rozin   +3 more
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In Vitro Susceptibility of Mycobacterium fortuitum and Mycobacterium chelonei to Amikacin

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1978
Infections due to Runyon group IV atypical mycobacteria, Mycobacterium fortuitum and Mycobacterium chelonei, in humans have been difficult to treat in the past because of the organisms' resistance to all of the conventional antimycobacterial drugs.
Dalovisio, J. R., Pankey, G. A.
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Infection of a shunt by Mycobacterium fortuitum

Neurosurgery, 1991
Abstract Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rare cause of central nervous system infection: however, shunt infection caused by this organism has not been reported. We report a case of shunt infection subsequent to insertion of a ventriculoatrial shunt for obstructive hydrocephalus caused by a cerebellar hematoma.
K H, Chan, K S, Mann, W H, Seto
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Pneumonectomy secondary to Mycobacterium fortuitum in infancy

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1991
Severe necrotic lung disease as a result of infection with a rapidly growing mycobacteria occurred in a 4-month-old infant. Successful treatment required a pneumonectomy.
R F, Paone, L C, Mercer, B A, Glass
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Mycobacterium Fortuitum Lipoid Pneumonia in a Dog

Veterinary Pathology, 2014
A 1-year old female spayed German Shepherd dog was evaluated for acute onset of dyspnea. Pyogranulomatous inflammation and green globoid structures were present on aspirates of the affected lung. Impression smears and histopathology confirmed pyogranulomatous pneumonia, with large amounts of lipid corresponding to the green structures noted ...
M K, Leissinger, J B, Garber, N, Fowlkes, A M, Grooters, A B, Royal, S D, Gaunt   +5 more
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