Skin infection caused by Mycobacterium szulgai after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
Infections are responsible for a large part of the morbidity and mortality after BMT because of the sustained impairment of host defenses. We report a case of cutaneous infection caused by Mycobacterium szulgai in a boy who underwent BMT with marrow from a matched unrelated donor.
Frisk
P
P
Uppsala University Children's Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Boman
G
G
Pauksen
K
K
Petrini
B
B
Lönnerholm
G
G
D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009170:Nontuberculous Mycobacteria; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D017192:Skin Diseases, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous