Fatal Disseminated Mycobacterium marinum Infection with Bacteremia in a Patient Misdiagnosed as Pyoderma Gangrenosum

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 26-29

  Gould, Carolyn V ^a   Werth, Victoria P ^a   Gluckman, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b 9 Penn Tower ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MINOCYCLINE; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FATALITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; PUNCH BIOPSY; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RHEUMATIC DISEASE;

EID: 1642554384     PISSN: 10569103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.idc.0000104896.16995.56     Document Type: Article

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