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Other Nontuberculous Mycobacteria and Skin Infection

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Various other mycobacteria can be pathogenic for man [1–6]. Here, those that most often induce skin manifestations will be considered. These complaints, too, are to be considered non contagious, since person-to-person transmission has never yet been documented [4, 7].

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Bonamonte, D., Verni, P., Angelini, G. (2017). Other Nontuberculous Mycobacteria and Skin Infection. In: Bonamonte, D., Angelini, G. (eds) Mycobacterial Skin Infections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48538-6_11

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