When a respiratory pathogen turns to the skin: cutaneous tuberculosis in a lung transplant patient
A 62-year-old male, who received immune suppressive therapy due to a lung transplantation several years ago, developed multiple painful abscesses in the right forearm. First misdiagnosed as staphylococcal abscesses, Mycobacterium tuberculosis was eventually cultured from the abscesses. In addition,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1753465815581152 |