Mycobacterium marinum is an unusual atypical mycobacterium with low pathogenicity for humans in comparison with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Among the non-tuberculous mycobacterial pathogens, Mycobacterium marinum is the most common pathogen to cause skin infections. Mycobacterium marinum infection causes chronic cutaneous lesions and in some cases deeper infections such as tenosynovitis, septic...

INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis is a major health problem worldwide. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is often secondary to some primary foci in lungs. There are reports of tuberculous osteomyelitis involving maxilla, ulna, femur, and shoulder joint but none have reported pathological fracture in humeral diaphysis due to tuberculosis osteomyelitis without shoulder joint involvement. We report a case of pa...

introduction tuberculosis of the foot is an unusual type of skeletal tuberculosis. case presentation we report on an eighty-six-year-old woman, who presented pain and purulent discharge from the right foot for 10 months. the final diagnosis was confirmed with a culture of mycobacterium tuberculosis. discussion diagnosis of this form of tuberculosis is established with some delay due to the unco...

We present the first reported case of Aspergillus vertebral osteomyelitis and epidural abscess in Singapore in a 50-year-old man with post-tuberculous bronchiectasis. The patient presented with acute urinary retention and flaccid paraplegia. Despite surgical debridement and treatment with voriconazole, the patient developed multiorgan failure and died two weeks after presentation. Early diagnos...

symphysis pubis is an uncommon site of tuberculosis and only few cases have been reported in the literature. it is important to distinguish it from the more common entities like osteitis pubis and osteomyelitis of pubis symphysis to prevent delay in diagnosis and minimize morbidity and prevent complications. we report a rare case of tuberculosis of symphysis pubis in a 50-year-old indian female...

skeletal tuberculosis is an unusual disease involving bone and joints and it may have different manifestations. this report introduces a 25-year-old woman suffering from chronic knee pain without any response to conservative treatments for one year. x-ray was normal but ct-scan and mri indicated a small lesion in medial condyle of the femur. the patient underwent percutaneous ct-guided biopsy. ...

Abstract Background Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) species rarely cause vertebral osteomyelitis (VO). The clinical characteristics and radiological findings of NTM VO are not well described since the number cases limited. Here we present culture positive VO, compared to those tuberculous (TB) VO. Methods We performed a retrospective, multicenter study at 5 hospitals. Patients with radiologic...