Disseminated Mycobacterium intracellulare infection with multiple abscesses on extremities in a woman with chronic corticosteroid therapy

A 78‐year‐old Japanese woman with rheumatoid arthritis was admitted to our hospital due to fever. She had been prescribed prednisolone and bucillamine. Computed tomography revealed abscesses on extremities. M. intracellulare was cultured from her calcaneus osteomyelitis, and this result pointed to a...

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Published in:J Gen Fam Med
Main Authors: Yaita, Kenichiro, Akiyoshi, Hisashi, Nakae, Ichiro, Kawasaki, Yuji, Nakama, Kenjiro, Sakai, Yoshiro, Masunaga, Kenji, Watanabe, Hiroshi
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5729362/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29264078
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.99
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