An octopus gift: Mycobacterium marinum multiple skin lesions

Niccolò Riccardi; Roberta Maria Antonello; Diana Canetti; Marina Polidori

doi:10.1007/s15010-022-01851-6

An octopus gift: Mycobacterium marinum multiple skin lesions

Infection. 2022 Dec;50(6):1631-1632. doi: 10.1007/s15010-022-01851-6. Epub 2022 May 24.

Authors

Niccolò Riccardi^{1

2}, Roberta Maria Antonello³, Diana Canetti^{3

4}, Marina Polidori⁵

Affiliations

¹ StopTB Italia Onlus, Milan, Italy. niccolo.riccardi@yahoo.it.
² Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, University of Pisa, 56124, Pisa, Italy. niccolo.riccardi@yahoo.it.
³ StopTB Italia Onlus, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
⁵ Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana, University of Pisa, 56124, Pisa, Italy.

PMID: 35610339
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-022-01851-6

Abstract

Mycobacterium marinum is a nontuberculous mycobacterium responsible of infections in humans, ranging from skin infection to disseminated infection in immunocompromised hosts. Clinical suspicion and prompt diagnosis are crucial to prescribe appropriate antimycobacterial treatment and avoid sequelae.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Animals
Humans
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous* / diagnosis
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous* / drug therapy
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous* / microbiology
Mycobacterium marinum*
Octopodiformes / microbiology
Skin Diseases, Bacterial* / diagnosis
Skin Diseases, Bacterial* / drug therapy
Skin Diseases, Bacterial* / microbiology