Ulcerative cutaneous mycobacteriosis due to mycobacterium ulcerans: Report of two Mexican cases

International Journal of Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-12

  Novales Santa Coloma, Josefa ^a,d   Navarrete Franco, Gisela ^b   Iribe, Pedro ^c   López Cepeda, Larissa Dorina ^c  

^a Dermatopathology Department   (Mexico)

^b Centro Dermatologico   (Mexico)

^c CENTRO DERMATOLÓGICO DR LADISLAO DE LA PASCUA   (Mexico)

^d NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACK; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND INJURY; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG DISEASE; MALE; METACARPAL BONE; MEXICO; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE CUTANEOUS MYCOBACTERIOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; NECROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SULFATES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 27644496254     PISSN: 0148916X     EISSN: 0148916X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1489/1544-581X(2005)73[5:UCMDTM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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