Mycobacterium chelonaeinfection: a complication of tattooing

Autor:	M. J. Tidman, G. M. Kavanagh, Ian F. Laurenson, P D Conaglen, A Sergeant, M. E. Mathers, Pauline Claxton
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Papular eruption Pathology medicine.medical_specialty biology business.industry Mycobacterium chelonae Dermatology biology.organism_classification Granulomatous inflammation Clarithromycin medicine In patient Microabscess Complication business medicine.drug Histological examination
Zdroj:	Clinical and Experimental Dermatology. 38:140-142
ISSN:	0307-6938
DOI:	10.1111/j.1365-2230.2012.04421.x
Popis:	Summary We describe an outbreak of Mycobacterium chelonae infection in four young immunocompetent patients who were tattooed by the same artist. All had been previously tattooed without complication, but following the latest tattooing session, they all developed a very similar papular eruption confined to skin that had been newly coloured light grey. On histological examination of the eruption, granulomatous inflammation with microabscess formation was seen, in association with the tattoo pigment. Skin cultures grown under optimal conditions grew M. chelonae, sensitive to clarithromycin, from one patient. M. chelonae was also cultured from the contents and nozzle of an opened bottle of light-grey ink from the tattoo parlour frequented by the patients. Dermatologists should consider mycobacterial infection in patients who develop inflammatory changes within a new tattoo.
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