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Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium haemophilum co-infection in an iatrogenically immunosuppressed patient
- Source :
- Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 78:494-496
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2014.
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Abstract
- We present the case of a native Texan who was diagnosed with tuberculoid leprosy and later developed a cutaneous infection with M. haemophilum following iatrogenic immunosuppression. To our knowledge, there are no such reports of M. haemophilum and M. leprae infection occurring simultaneously in the same host.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_treatment
Tuberculoid leprosy
Microbiology
Immunocompromised Host
medicine
Humans
Mycobacterium leprae
Skin
Microscopy
Mycobacterium Infections
biology
Coinfection
Histocytochemistry
business.industry
Immunosuppression
Skin Diseases, Bacterial
General Medicine
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Leprosy, Tuberculoid
Mycobacterium haemophilum
Infectious Diseases
Sarcoidosis
Leprosy
business
Co infection
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 07328893
- Volume :
- 78
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....8a4d33a06de46e7b8af7f5e47db60eff
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2013.09.003