Disseminated skin infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum in an immunocompetent patient.
Skin infections caused by atypical rapid-growing mycobacteria, which used considered to be unusual, have become more frequent, especially in immunodepressed patients. Clinical cutaneous disease with these pathogens seems to follow two patterns: in the immunocompetent host, a traumatic injury is followed by the development of localized abscess formation; but in the immunocompromised individual there is no history of trauma and the patient presents with multiple subcutaneous nodular lesions. We describe a rare case of an immunocompetent young woman with disseminated skin infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum. We emphasize the diagnostic and therapeutic problems associated with such infections.
Department of Dermatology, Hospital General de Alicante, Spain.
J F
JF
Silvestre Salvador
M I
MI
Betlloch
R
R
Alfonso
R L
RL
Ramón
A M
AM
Morell
J
J
Navas
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D007868:Leg Dermatoses / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D019907:Mycobacterium fortuitum / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology