Mycobacterium conceptionense infection after breast implant surgery, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1180-1181

  Thibeaut, Sandrine ^a   Levy, Pierre Yves ^a,b   Pelletier, Marie Laure ^b   Drancourt, Michel ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Clinique la Casamance   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST DISCHARGE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; FRANCE; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CONCEPTIONENSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REOPERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WOUND FLUID; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS;

BREAST IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS;

EID: 77954429167     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1607.090771     Document Type: Letter

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