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ArticleEmerging infectious diseases2013

Mycobacterium chelonae abscesses associated with biomesotherapy, Australia, 2008.

Mihaela Ivan, Craig Dancer, Ann P Koehler, Michaela Hobby, Chris Lease

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Article in Emerging infectious diseases, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Drug susceptibility patterns of rapidly growing mycobacteria isolated from skin and soft tissue infections in Venezuela.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2020
    Article
  3. Review
  4. Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria.Microbiology spectrum · 2017
    Review
  5. Mycobacterial skin and soft tissue infection.Current infectious disease reports · 2014
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mihaela IvanSouth Australia Department of Health, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. mihaela.ivan@health.vic.gov.au
Craig Dancer
Ann P Koehler
Michaela Hobby
Chris Lease

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An outbreak of skin abscesses occurred in Adelaide, Australia, in association with biomesotherapy, an alternative therapy practice. Mycobacterium chelonae was identified in 8 patient and 3 environmental samples. Our findings show M. chelonae infection can be associated with alternative therapies when infection-control breaches occur. Tighter regulations of alternative therapy practices are needed.

Indexed as

Mycobacterium chelonaeAbscessAdultAgedComplementary TherapiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMycobacterium Infections, NontuberculousSkin Diseases, BacterialSouth Australiaalternative therapyAustraliabacteriabiomesotherapyinfection controlmycobacteriumMycobacterium chelonaeoutbreakrapid growing mycobacteriumrare pathogensskin abscess

Identifiers

PMID23968779
PMCPMC3810901

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