Diagnosis of Mycobacterium marinum Infection with Sporotrichoid Pattern.

Aubry A, Chosidow O, Caumes E, Robert J, Cambau E. Sixtythree cases of Mycobacterium marinum infection: clinical features, treatment, and antibiotic susceptibility of causative isolates. Mycobacterium marinum infections in Denmark from 2004 to 2017: a retrospective study of incidence, patient characteristics, treatment regimens and outcome. ActaDV ActaDV Advances in dermatology and venereology Acta Dermato-Venereologica SHORT COMMUNICATION 1/2 Acta Derm Venereol 2021; 101: adv00414 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license. www.medicaljournals.se/acta doi: 10.2340/00015555-3777 Society for Publication of Acta Dermato-Venereologica Mycobacterium marinum is a non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) that can infect both fish and humans (1). We report here a case of M. marinum infection with sporotrichoid pattern, in which, after several inconclusive biopsies, diagnosis was made by aquarium water culture. [Extracted from the article]