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New Microbes New Infect. 2016 Jan 22;10:112-5. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.01.006. eCollection 2016 Mar.

Panniculitis caused by Mycobacterium monacense mimicking erythema induratum: a case in Ecuador.

New microbes and new infections

J J Romero, P Herrera, M Cartelle, P Barba, S Tello, J Zurita

Affiliations

  1. Hospital Vozandes, Ecuador; Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador.
  2. Hospital Vozandes, Ecuador.
  3. Unidad de Investigaciones en Biomedicina, Zurita & Zurita Laboratorios, Ecuador.
  4. Laboratorio de Patología, Hospital AXXIS, Quito, Ecuador.
  5. Hospital Vozandes, Ecuador; Unidad de Investigaciones en Biomedicina, Zurita & Zurita Laboratorios, Ecuador; Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador.

PMID: 26933504 PMCID: PMC4765770 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2016.01.006

Abstract

We report the first case of recently characterized species M. monacense associated with chronic nodular vasculitis, infecting a young woman. This case represents the first isolation of M. monacense from Ecuador. The isolate was identified by conventional and molecular techniques.

Keywords: Ecuador; Mycobacterium monacense; Non-tuberculous mycobacteria; erythema induratum

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