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JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION
Volume 66, Issue 4, Pages 374-377Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2007.05.006
Keywords
hernia surgery; Mycobacterium fortuitum; surgical infection; polypropylene
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Mycobacterium fortuitum complex is a group of rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM). These opportunistic pathogens are frequently associated with infections related to surgical procedures involving biomaterials. Two cases of Mycobacterium fortuitum infection occurred in a prospective study of inguinal hernia prosthesis repairs. These infections differed from those caused by other bacteria in terms of pathogenic mechanisms, clinical. manifestation and resistance to both prophylactic and therapeutic antibiotics. (c) 2007 The Hospital Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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