Primary tuberculous chancre caused by Mycobacterium bovis after goring with a bull's horn.
A 14-year-old boy was gored by a bull during festival celebrations. The horn of the bull caused a wound on his left hand and after 3 months it was a accompanied by an ulcerated nodule on the left upper arm and an axillary adenopathy. The tuberculin test was positive and a culture of the aspiration biopsy specimen of the axillary lymph node yielded Mycombacterium bovis.
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Departments of Dermatology, Microbiology, and Pediatrics, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Zaragoza, Spain. derh@hcu0lblesa.es
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D000293:Adolescent; D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009163:Mycobacterium bovis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014382:Tuberculosis, Cutaneous / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology