Cutaneous Mycobacterium szulgai infection in a patient with Cushing's syndrome: a case report and literature review

Ye, Haiyan; Harris, Vanessa C.; Chiu, Kelvin Hei-Yeung; Chen, Shuang; Xing, Fanfan; Sun, Linlin; Deng, Chaowen; Yang, Jin; Chan, Jasper Fuk-Woo; Yuen, Kwok-Yung

doi:10.1186/s12879-023-08253-5

Table 1 Characteristics of the seventeen patients with cutaneous M. szulgai infection

From: Cutaneous Mycobacterium szulgai infection in a patient with Cushing's syndrome: a case report and literature review

Year/County	Age (years)	Sex	Comorbidity	Exposure history	Cutaneous involvement	Other organs involvement	Susceptibility test	Treatment	Duration (months)	Outcome	Ref
1985/USA	51	Male	Steroid use	Unknown	Right ankle and elbow, left knee, back	Osteomyelitis of the right ankle and fibula, pulmonary	Nil	INH, RIF, EMB	24	Cure	[9]
2000/Japan	41	Female	SLE	Unknown	Right forearm	Nil	S: INH, RIF, EMB	Debridement, CL	3	Cure	[10]
2002/Sweden	4	Male	Post-BMT	Unknown	Right big toe	Right inguinal lymphadenopathy	S: AMI, STM CIP, EMB, CL, RIF R: INH, PTO	RIF, EMB	9	Cure	[11]
2003/UK	27	Male	Anemia and lymphopenia	Unknown	Left hand to the arm, thighs	Left axillary lymphadenopathy	S: RIF, EMB, CL, AMI, CIP	INH, EMB, CL	2	Cure	[12]
2004/Germany	36	Male	AIDS	Tropical fish	Left forearm, right hand,	Osteomyelitis of the third right metacarpal joint	Nil	EMB, CL, CIP	12	Cure	[13]
2007/UK	26	Male	Unknown	Unknown	Face, arms, hands, trunk and legs	Nil	Nil	INH, RIF, EMB, PZA	2	Recurrence	[14]
2008/USA	66	Female	CLL	Unknown	Right hand, elbow, forearm, left thigh	Multifocal osteomyelitis	S: INH, RIF, EMB, AMI, CIP, CL	INH, RIF, EMB	24	Cure	[15]
2011/Japan	59	Male	HBV carrier	Unknown	Bilateral fingers and feet, left upper arm	Pulmonary	Nil	INH, RIF, PZA, STM	2	Cure	[16]
2012/UK	59	Female	Unknown	Tropical fish	Right index finger	Nil	Nil	Debridement, RIF, EMB, CL,	1.5	Cure	[17]
2015/India	46	Female	Laparoscopic appendectomy in 1998	Unknown	Abdominal wall	Nil	S: LIN, RIF, AMI, CIP, LEV, CL, EMB; R: INH	RIF, EMB, CL	4	Cure	[18]
2016/Japan	59	Male	MDS	Unknown	Left chest wall	Mediastinal lymphadenopathy	Nil	LEV, AZM, EMB	12	Cure	[19]
2017/Venezuela	36	Female	Augmentation mammoplasty	Unknown	Right breast	Nil	S: INH, RIF, EMB R: STM	Debridement, INH, RIF, EMB	8	Cure	[20]
2017/USA	66	Male	Renal transplant	Oyster	Right index finger	Nil	Nil	Debridement, EMB, MOX, AZM	4	Cure	[21]
2017/UK	53	Female	Unknown	Rose thorn injury	Right index finger	Nil	Nil	Debridement, INH, RIF, EMB, PZA	9	Cure	[22]
2019/UK	64	Male	Steroid use	Mississippi mud turtle	Right wrist	Nil	Nil	Debridement, RIF, EMB, LIN,	9	Cure	[23]
2019/China	36	Male	Heavy smoker	Sickle injury 20 years ago	Left hand, right ear, left elbow	Nil	S: EMB, CL, AMI, RIF, CIP	RIF, EMB, CL	6	Cure	[24]
2021/USA	77	Male	Steroid use	Unknown	Right hand, right wrist	Nil	Nil	Debridement, RIF, CIP, CL	3.5*	Cure	[25]

^*3 months and half months of 3 drugs, 1 month of CIP and CL
AIDS Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, MDS Myelodysplastic syndrome, BMT Bone marrow transplant, CLL Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, HBV Hepatitis B virus, SLE Systemic lupus erythematosus, INH Isoniazid, RIF Rifampin, EMB Ethambutol, PZA Pyrazinamide, CL Clarithromycin, AMI Amikacin, STM Streptomycin, CIP Ciprofloxacin, LIN Linezolid, AZM Azithromycin, LEV Levofloxacin, MOX Moxifloxacin, PTO Protionamide

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