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.
Silvestre Salvador
J F
JF
Department of Dermatology, Hospital General de Alicante, Spain.
Betlloch
M I
MI
Alfonso
R
R
Ramón
R L
RL
Morell
A M
AM
Navas
J
J
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