Cutaneous inoculation of nontuberculous mycobacteria during professional tattooing: A case series and epidemiologic study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Falsey, Ryan R ^a   Kinzer, Michael H ^c   Hurst, Stanley ^a   Kalus, Andrea ^a   Pottinger, Paul S ^b   Duchin, Jeffrey S ^c   Zhang, Jiong ^a   Noble Wang, Judith ^d   Shinohara, Michi M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^c Public Health Seattle and King County ^*  (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM); tattoo

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; INK; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; STEROID; TIGECYCLINE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CUTANEOUS INOCULATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INJECTION SITE INFECTION; INOCULATION; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; LOOSE FECES; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PAIN; PAPULE; PATHOGENICITY; PERIPHERALLY INSERTED CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PUSTULE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN PAIN; SPECIES; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STEROID THERAPY; TATTOO; TATTOOING; THROMBOCYTE; TINEA CORPORIS; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA (NTM); TATTOO;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INK; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TATTOOING; WASHINGTON;

EID: 84883209754     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit347     Document Type: Article

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