Cause Analysis of an Infection in Facelift Surgery Due to Mycobacterium chelonae

Cause Analysis of an Infection in Facelift Surgery Due to Mycobacterium chelonae

We report a post-facelift infection due to Mycobacterium chelonae. An environmental strain recovered from the water supply network of the surgical clinic and the clinical strains were considered non-differentiable using whole genome sequencing. After the unhealed wound's exposure to M. chelonae...

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Main Authors: Marie Decalonne, Emmanuel Lecorche, Estelle Hau, Agnès Petiteau, Célia Moreau, Odile Milan, Philipe Lanotte, Laurent Mereghetti, Emmanuelle Cambau, Nathalie van der Mee-Marquet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
Subjects:
Mycobacterium chelonae
WGS
post-surgical infection
tap water
showering
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmed.2019.00243/full
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Summary:We report a post-facelift infection due to Mycobacterium chelonae. An environmental strain recovered from the water supply network of the surgical clinic and the clinical strains were considered non-differentiable using whole genome sequencing. After the unhealed wound's exposure to M. chelonae while showering early at the clinic after surgery, a lasting exposure of the colonized wound to the warm and moist working conditions of a bakery may have been favorable to the infection's development.
ISSN:2296-858X

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