Osteomyelitis Infection of Mycobacterium marinum: A Case Report and Literature Review
Mycobacterium marinum (M. marinum) is a ubiquitous waterborne organism that grows optimally at temperatures around 30°C. It is a nontuberculous Mycobacterium found in nonchlorinated water with worldwide prevalence. It is the most common atypical Mycobacterium that causes opportunistic infection in h...
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| author | Hao H. Nguyen Nada Fadul Muhammad S. Ashraf Dawd S. Siraj |
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| description | Mycobacterium marinum (M. marinum) is a ubiquitous waterborne organism that grows optimally at temperatures around 30°C. It is a nontuberculous Mycobacterium found in nonchlorinated water with worldwide prevalence. It is the most common atypical Mycobacterium that causes opportunistic infection in humans. M. marinum can cause superficial infections and localized invasive infections in humans, with the hands being the sites most frequently affected. It can cause skin lesions, which are either single, papulonodular lesions, confined to an extremity, or may resemble cutaneous sporotrichosis. This infection can also cause deeper infections including tenosynovitis, bursitis, arthritis, and osteomyelitis. Disseminated infections and visceral involvements have been reported in immunocompromised patients.
We here report a case of severe deep soft tissue infection with necrotizing fasciitis and osteomyelitis of the left upper extremity (LUE) caused by M. marinum in an immunocompromised patient. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9c6ed6a12e1e491dbe2727a21f698daa2025-02-03T01:21:50ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332015-01-01201510.1155/2015/905920905920Osteomyelitis Infection of Mycobacterium marinum: A Case Report and Literature ReviewHao H. Nguyen0Nada Fadul1Muhammad S. Ashraf2Dawd S. Siraj3Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Mailstop 715, Doctors Park 6A, Greenville, NC 27834, USADivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Mailstop 715, Doctors Park 6A, Greenville, NC 27834, USADivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Mailstop 715, Doctors Park 6A, Greenville, NC 27834, USADivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Mailstop 715, Doctors Park 6A, Greenville, NC 27834, USAMycobacterium marinum (M. marinum) is a ubiquitous waterborne organism that grows optimally at temperatures around 30°C. It is a nontuberculous Mycobacterium found in nonchlorinated water with worldwide prevalence. It is the most common atypical Mycobacterium that causes opportunistic infection in humans. M. marinum can cause superficial infections and localized invasive infections in humans, with the hands being the sites most frequently affected. It can cause skin lesions, which are either single, papulonodular lesions, confined to an extremity, or may resemble cutaneous sporotrichosis. This infection can also cause deeper infections including tenosynovitis, bursitis, arthritis, and osteomyelitis. Disseminated infections and visceral involvements have been reported in immunocompromised patients. We here report a case of severe deep soft tissue infection with necrotizing fasciitis and osteomyelitis of the left upper extremity (LUE) caused by M. marinum in an immunocompromised patient.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/905920 |
| spellingShingle | Hao H. Nguyen Nada Fadul Muhammad S. Ashraf Dawd S. Siraj Osteomyelitis Infection of Mycobacterium marinum: A Case Report and Literature Review Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | Osteomyelitis Infection of Mycobacterium marinum: A Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_full | Osteomyelitis Infection of Mycobacterium marinum: A Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_fullStr | Osteomyelitis Infection of Mycobacterium marinum: A Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Osteomyelitis Infection of Mycobacterium marinum: A Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_short | Osteomyelitis Infection of Mycobacterium marinum: A Case Report and Literature Review |
| title_sort | osteomyelitis infection of mycobacterium marinum a case report and literature review |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/905920 |
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