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Table 1 Clinical course and therapy

From: Mycobacterium fortuitum skin infections after subcutaneous injections with Vietnamese traditional medicine: a case report

Day

History

Diagnostics

Treatment

-15

Received injections

  

-10

Start of symptoms

  
 

Treatment at local clinic

 

Unknown

0

Admission, drainage of lesions

  

1

 

Acid-fast bacilli in ZN slide

Amikacin IV, clarithromycin

4

 

Culture positive

Amikacin IV, doxycyclin, co-trimoxazole

8

 

DST results

 
  

E-test imipenem

 
  

16S sequence

 

14

Defervescene

  

15

  

Imipenem IV, tid

23

New lesions on hands/feet

Acid-fast bacilli in ZN slide

 

29

New lesions on hands/feet

Acid-fast bacilli in ZN slide

 

32

New lesions on shoulder/hip

ZN/culture negative

 

50

  

Imipenem IV, qid

72

New lesions on shoulder

ZN/culture negative

 
 

Papules on hands/feet

  
 

Papules on hands/feet

  

90

All lesions healed

  

110

   

120

Discharge

 

Amoxicillin-clavulanic acid

   

Stop after 4 months

  1. Legends: ZN: Ziehl Neelsen; DST: Drug Susceptibility Test; IV: intravenous; tid: ter in die (three time a day); qid: quater in die (four times a day).