Outbreak of a cutaneous Mycobacterium marinum infection in Jiangsu Haian, China

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 267-272

  Feng, Yumiao ^a   Xu, Huaisheng ^b   Wang, Hongsheng ^a   Zhang, Caiping ^a   Zong, Wenkai ^a   Wu, Qinxue ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b Jiangsu Haian Hospital of Skin Diseases   (China)

Author keywords

Clarithromycin; Cutaneous infection; Mycobacterium marinum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ITRACONAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MONOTHERAPY; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; PISCICULTURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SPOROTRICHOSIS; STAINING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADULT; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHAPERONIN 60; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053908178     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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