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Septic cutaneous lesions caused byMycobacterium malmoense in a patient with hairy cell leukemia

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Patients with hairy cell leukemia seem to be prone to infections with mycobacteria. This report describes a patient with hairy cell leukemia and pulmonary infection as well as disseminated cutaneous infection caused byMycobacterium malmoense cultured from sputum and skin scrapings on Loewenstein-Jensen medium in eight weeks. Despite multiresistance of the causative strain, the infection was successfully treated with ethambutol, cycloserine and isoniazid.

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  1. Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Lund, Malmö General Hospital, S-214 01, Malmö, Sweden

    B. Castor

  2. Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Lund, Malmö General Hospital, S-214 01, Malmö, Sweden

    I. Juhlin

  3. National Bacteriological Laboratory, S-105 21, Stockholm, Sweden

    B. Henriques

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Castor, B., Juhlin, I. & Henriques, B. Septic cutaneous lesions caused byMycobacterium malmoense in a patient with hairy cell leukemia. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 13, 145–148 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01982188

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