Nontuberculous mycobacterial skin infection resembling lepromatous leprosy.

Abstract:

:A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium. Skin infection with these organisms is unusual, and the histologic appearance in this case suggested lepromatous leprosy.

journal_name

South Med J

journal_title

Southern medical journal

authors

Love GL

doi

10.1097/00007611-198708000-00033

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-08-01 00:00:00

pages

1060-1

issue

8

eissn

0038-4348

issn

1541-8243

journal_volume

80

pub_type

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