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Cutaneous Mycobacterium massiliense infection after body piercing Volume 26, numéro 6, November-December 2016

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Auteurs
1 Department of Dermatology,
Keio University School of Medicine
2 Leprosy Research Center,
National Institute of Infectious Diseases,
Tokyo, Japan

A 19-year-old Japanese woman had her navel pierced for aesthetic purposes in a medical clinic. Aftercare by the practitioner was not provided, and she disinfected the surgical site herself every day. After two weeks, she developed a suppurative wound on the navel. The lymph nodes (LNs) in the groins became swollen one month later, and the LN in the left groin festered. She was admitted to our hospital and was started on empirical antibiotic treatment, which was ineffective. A computed tomography [...]