A Case of Mycobacterial Skin Disease Caused by Mycobacterium peregrinum, and a Review of Cutaneous Infection

• Main Authors: Fuminao Kamijo (Author), Hisashi Uhara (Author), Hitomi Kubo (Author), Kazue Nakanaga (Author), Yoshihiko Hoshino (Author), Norihisa Ishii (Author), Ryuhei Okuyama (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Karger Publishers, 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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An 83-year-old Japanese man presented with a 2-month history of symptomatic nodules on the left hand. He was not in an immunocompromised condition and reported no causal events. A biopsy specimen demonstrated granulomatous tissue with mixed cell infiltration consisting of neutrophils, histiocytes, l...