Angelika J, Hans-Jürgen G, Uwe-Frithjof H. Primary cutaneous nocardiosis in a husband and wife.
J Am Acad Dermatol 1999;
41:338-40. [PMID:
10426926 DOI:
10.1016/s0190-9622(99)70381-6]
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Abstract
A 62-year-old woman suffered from acute purulent skin disease with multiple subcutaneous abscesses. At the same time, her 65-year-old husband presented with multiple subcutaneous nodules along the lymphatic vessels of his right arm. Both had a history of a minor scratch by a thorn of a bush at the site of infection. Nocardia was identified as causative bacterium from the woman's lesions. Therefore the rare phenomenon of 2 different forms of acute primary cutaneous nocardiosis after simultaneous infection, lymphocutaneous infection, and superficial skin infection was diagnosed.
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