A case of disseminated Mycobacterium marinum infection following systemic steroid therapy

P L Ho; P Ho; B K Fung; W Y Ip; S S Wong

doi:10.1080/00365540151061003

A case of disseminated Mycobacterium marinum infection following systemic steroid therapy

Scand J Infect Dis. 2001;33(3):232-3. doi: 10.1080/00365540151061003.

Authors

P L Ho¹, P Ho, B K Fung, W Y Ip, S S Wong

Affiliation

¹ Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 11303818
DOI: 10.1080/00365540151061003

Abstract

We describe the dissemination of Mycobacterium marinum infection from the right middle finger to the whole extremity and two legs, with the involvement of tendons and joints, in a patient who was treated with a steroid when Mycobacterium marinum infection was not suspected. The patient was successfully treated with a combined surgical and medical approach.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Animals
Fingers / microbiology*
Fishes / microbiology
Humans
Male
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / drug therapy*
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / surgery*
Mycobacterium marinum*
Steroids / adverse effects
Steroids / therapeutic use*
Synovectomy

Substances

Steroids