Local and disseminated infections caused by mycobacterium marinum: An unusual cause of subcutaneous nodules

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 156-160

  Adhikesavan, Leena G ^a,b   Harrington, Thomas M ^a  

^a GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium marinum; Rheumatologic manifestations, local and disseminated infection

Indexed keywords

AURAMINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; COLCHICINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETHAMBUTOL; METHOTREXATE; MINOCYCLINE; PREDNISONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; RHODAMINE; RIFAMPICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANKLE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CYTOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE BIOPSY; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; CASE REPORT; CAUTERIZATION; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMATITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELBOW; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FINGER; FISH; GOUT; GRANULOMATOSIS; HAND EDEMA; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HEAT TREATMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INCUBATION TIME; JOINT EFFUSION; LACERATION; LEG EDEMA; LEG SWELLING; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NAIL BED; OSTEOMYELITIS; PAIN; PANNICULITIS; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; PUS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID NODULE; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN REDNESS; SKIN SWELLING; STAINING; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE; SUPPURATION; SYNOVITIS; TANK; TIBIA; TISSUE NECROSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOLOGY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 48249114041     PISSN: 10761608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RHU.0b013e31817759fe     Document Type: Article

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