Publications
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| mycobacterium marinum infections: diagnosis and treatment. | 1982 | 7146965 | |
| aquarium-borne mycobacterium marinum granulomas. | mycobacterium marinum was isolated for the first time in denmark from skin granuloma of a 37-year-old man. the skin lesion was provoked by an injury from the broken glass of an aquarium used for tropical fish. treatment with rifampicin and ethambutol was successful. at the time of diagnosis, m. marinum was also isolated from a dead fish; but in no case was skin granuloma found among purchasers of fish supplied by the patient. | 1980 | 7189291 |
| [cutaneous infection with mycobacterium marinum]. | 1980 | 7190745 | |
| ["swimming-pool granuloma"--an infection of skin with mycobacterium marinum (author's transl)]. | a typical case of infection with mycobacterium marinum is demonstrated. mycobacterium marinum, the symptoms and signs of infection and the way of treatment are shown. | 1981 | 7222879 |
| response in the hindfoot pad and popliteal lymph node of c57bl mice to infection with mycobacterium marinum. | c57bl mice inoculated in the hindfoot pads with 5 x 10(3) viable mycobacterium marinum developed a localized disease process, characterized by swelling of the foot and increases in the number of acid-fast bacilli and colony forming units recovered. these changes became maximal 10 to 14 days after inoculation and then decreased in intensity. an acute inflammatory response appeared in the hindfoot pad during the first 24 h and increased in intensity during the next few days. by seven days after in ... | 1981 | 7239868 |
| mycobacterium marinum infection in bufonidae. | 1981 | 7253098 | |
| relationship between photochromogenicity and test temperature in mycobacteria. | although it has been recommended that photochromogenicity of mycobacteria should be tested after incubation at 25 to 30 degrees c for 2 weeks (wayne et al., int. j. syst. bacteriol. 24:412-419, 1974), our results indicate that photochromogenicity should be determined at 37 degrees c in the dark and under continuous exposure to light for 2 weeks. the test at 37 degrees c gives more stable results for mycobacterium kansasii, mycobacterium marinum and mycobacterium szulgai. | 1981 | 7276150 |
| susceptibility of mycobacterium marinum to tetracyclines and aminoglycosides. | current agar dilution methods for susceptibility testing of mycobacterium marinum versus the tetracyclines have failed to show in vitro susceptibility despite good in vivo results. we found that the tetracyclines were unstable in agar and resulted in a fine haze of growth for several concentrations before complete inhibition of growth was seen. in contrast, the aminoglycosides resulted in sharp minimal inhibitory concentration endpoints, which were generally independent of the length of incubati ... | 1981 | 7325629 |
| recent experience in the epidemiology of disease caused by atypical mycobacteria. | to obtain information on the epidemiology of mycobacteriosis, water and air samples collected along the east coast of the united states were examined for mycobacteria. mycobacterium avium-intracellulare-scrofulaceum (mais) were isolated from 25% of the water, samples, mostly those from south carolina, georgia, and the gulf states. mycobacterium kansasii and mycobacterium marinum were not found, probably because of the detrimental effects of the naoh used to decontaminate the samples. mais strain ... | 1981 | 7339831 |
| role of the popliteal lymph node in infection with mycobacterium marinum of the hind footpad of the mouse, and source of the cells that characterize the process. | we examined the possibility that the popliteal lymph node serves as the source of the lymphocytes that, together with macrophages, characterize the lesion produced by infection with mycobacterium marinum in the hind footpad of the mouse. naïve mice were partially protected against challenge with m. marinum in the hind footpad by intravenous infusion of lymphocytes harvested from the popliteal nodes of donor mice infected with m. marinum 7 days earlier. lymphocytes harvested from the popliteal no ... | 1981 | 7345563 |
| response in distant lymph nodes of mice to infection in the hind footpad with mycobacterium marinum. | in an attempt to demonstrate the importance of the popliteal lymph node in limiting the progress of infection with mycobacterium marinum in the hind footpads of c57bl mice, such infections were studied in mice subjected to popliteal or popliteal and inguinal adenectomies. in the absence of the popliteal node, the footpad infection was only slightly enhanced compared with infections of sham-operated control mice; the inguinal node was found to be greatly enlarged and appeared to have substituted ... | 1980 | 7380564 |
| survival of balb/c mice after intravenous infection with mycobacterium marinum. | in a search for a simple technique by which to study the disease of mice that follows infection with mycobacterium marinum, survival of balb/c mice after i.v. inoculation of m. marinum was measured. length of survival was inversely proportional to the number of viable organisms in the inoculum, and was greater in weanling than in yearling mice. prior infection with m. marinum in a hindfoot pad at least two weeks before i.v. challenge with the same organism conferred protection against the challe ... | 1980 | 7399878 |
| tuberculosis in marine tropical fishes in an aquarium. | skin, gill and visceral tubercle lesions were detected in marine tropical fish in an aquarium. ninety-seven fish of 17 different genera were affected. the tubercles consisted of a wall of densely packed epithelioid cells and necrotic center packed with acid-fast bacilli identified as mycobacterium marinum. | 1980 | 7431514 |
| heat treatment for certain chronic granulomatous skin infections. | four cases of chronic granulomatous skin infections (two due to sporothrix schenckii and two to mycobacterium marinum) were treated primarily by the intermittent application of local hyperthermia. this treatment was initiated either because of intolerance to conventional iodide therapy for sporotrichosis or as interim therapy while awaiting diagnosis of the mycobacterial infections. the response indicated that the application of heat is a useful adjunct to the therapy of these infections. our ex ... | 1980 | 7444542 |
| in vitro susceptibility of mycobacterium marinum to eight antimicrobial agents. | the in vitro susceptibilities of 16 mycobacterium marinum strains to eight antimicrobial agents were determined by the agar dilution technique. the most active drugs were amikacin and kanamycin. tetracycline, doxycycline, and minocycline were inhibitory, predominantly at concentrations slightly below the expected blood and tissue levels. trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and erythromycin demonstrated activity only at concentrations greater than those usually attained in serum and tissues. gentamicin ... | 1980 | 7447416 |
| protection of mice by intraperitoneal vaccination against challenge in the foot pad with mycobacterium marinum. | in a study of local infection of mice with mycobacterium marinum, heat-killed m. marinum suspended either in hanks' balanced salt solution or in freund's incomplete adjuvant was administered i.p. to balb/c mice. the mice were challenged in the hind foot pad 3, 7, or 14 days thereafter with 5 x 10(3) viable m. marinum. at every time interval, killed m. marinum in the saline medium conferred modest protection against the challenge infection, whereas the antigen suspended in adjuvant conferred prot ... | 1980 | 7451112 |
| sporotrichoid mycobacterium marinum skin infection treated with minocycline hydrochloride. | 1980 | 7471467 | |
| septic arthritis due to mycobacterium marinum. | 1995 | 7473495 | |
| susceptibilities of nontuberculosis mycobacterial species to amoxicillin-clavulanic acid alone and in combination with antimycobacterial agents. | neither amoxicillin nor clavulanic acid used alone was active at the highest level tested, i.e., 256.0 micrograms/ml, in vitro against 24 isolates of mycobacterium fortuitum, mycobacterium kansasii, and mycobacterium marinum. however, the mic of an amoxicillin-clavulanic acid combination of 2:1 was < or = 8.0/4.0 micrograms/ml for 50 percent of the isolates tested, with all isolates being inhibited in the range of 4.0/2.0 to 32.0/16.0 micrograms/ml, respectively. titration of amoxicillin-clavula ... | 1995 | 7492084 |
| nucleotide sequence and secondary structures of precursor 16s rrna of slow-growing mycobacteria. | slow-growing mycobacteria have a single ribosomal rna (rrn) operon, with the genes for 16s, 23s and 5s rrna being present in that order. the transcription start site of the rrn operon of mycobacterium tuberculosis was identified in escherichia coli. pcr methodology was used to amplify parts of the rrn operon, namely the leader region and the spacer-1 region separating the 16s rrna and 23s rrna genes of mycobacterium avium, mycobacterium paratuberculosis, mycobacterium intracellulare, 'mycobacter ... | 1994 | 7512868 |
| treatment of mycobacterium marinum facial abscess using clarithromycin. | 1995 | 7567299 | |
| mycobacterium marinum arthritis. | mycobacterium marinum is an atypical acid-fast organism that is rarely associated with septic arthritis. most often this is seen in patients with monarticular synovitis of the hands or wrists, especially in association with a history of periarticular trauma or exposure to marine environments. from tissue obtained by aspiration or synovectomy, mycobacterium marinum can be identified by ziehl-nielson stain and has optimal growth in lowenstein-jenson medium. therapy should consist of at least two a ... | 1995 | 7667643 |
| [detection and identification of mycobacteria by pcr-rflp method]. | the frequency of isolation of mycobacterium tuberculosis has reported to be decreased, however, mycobacterium species including mott (mycobacteria other than m. tuberculosis complex) still remain to be the important bacteria causing opportunistic infection. two clinical procedures have long been adopted to date for the detection of acid fast bacteria belonging to the family mycobacteriaceae. one is the direct microscopic examination of the specimen stained by ziehl-neelsen method, which is rapid ... | 1995 | 7699930 |
| purification and characterization of a low-molecular-mass t-cell antigen secreted by mycobacterium tuberculosis. | a novel immunogenic antigen, the 6-kda early secretory antigenic target (esat-6), from short-term culture filtrates of mycobacterium tuberculosis was purified by hydrophobic interaction chromatography and anion-exchange chromatography by use of fast protein liquid chromatography. the antigen focused at two different pis of 4.0 and 4.5 during isoelectric focusing, and each of these components separated into three spots ranging from 4 to 6 kda during two-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacry ... | 1995 | 7729876 |
| [skin infection by mycobacterium marinum]. | 1995 | 7769886 | |
| faster identification of mycobacteria using gas liquid and thin layer chromatography. | gas liquid chromatography (glc) and thin layer chromatography (tlc) analysis of cell wall content was used for identification of mycobacteria isolated in primary cultures. glc permitted determination of the fatty acid and alcohol profiles of mycobacterium simiae and mycobacterium marinum and detection of a peak in mycobacterium ulcerans formerly described for mycobacterium malmoense. using the data obtained to fill some of the gaps in the dichotomic trees of tisdall et al. and jantzen et al., gl ... | 1994 | 7843176 |
| new antimicrobials against mycobacterium marinum infection. | 1994 | 7857853 | |
| thin-layer chromatography and mass spectrometry of pentafluorobenzylidene derivatives of members of the phthiocerol family from mycobacterium tuberculosis and mycobacterium marinum. | the difference in relative stereochemistry of the 1.3-diol unit of mycobacterial phthiocerols can be determined by simple thin-layer chromatographic analysis of pentafluorobenzylidene acetal derivatives. the threo phthiocerol acetals from mycobacterium tuberculosis are composed of equal amounts of two axial-equatorial stereoisomers but the erythro phthiocerols from mycobacterium marinum form only one acetal with diequatorial substituents. the two acetals formed from a threo phthiocerol can be se ... | 1994 | 7947923 |
| mycobacterium marinum infection in a patient with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. | a variety of mycobacterial organisms may infect patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, lymphoma, and sporotrichoid mycobacterium marinum is described. the patient responded completely to antimycobacterial therapy but relapsed when he discontinued his medications six months into his course. disease persistence in spite of therapy had been noted in other immunocompromised states but not previously in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. ... | 1994 | 7956332 |
| mycobacterium marinum skin infections. report of 31 cases and review of the literature. | mycobacterium marinum is a rare cause of skin infections, and its treatment has been based primarily on the personal experience and preferences of individual investigators without the benefit of large studies. | 1994 | 8002687 |
| clarithromycin: a potent agent against infections due to mycobacterium marinum. | 1994 | 8038339 | |
| mycobacterium marinum persists in cultured mammalian cells in a temperature-restricted fashion. | we have explored the relatively rapidly growing animal and human pathogen mycobacterium marinum as an experimental model for mycobacterial pathogenesis. m. marinum, which has a lower temperature for optimal growth than does mycobacterium tuberculosis, has a much shorter generation time and can be safely studied in ordinary laboratory facilities and examined in multiple animal infection models. we have established an in vitro assay for its interaction with eukaryotic cells and shown that it persi ... | 1994 | 8039892 |
| antibiotic susceptibility of mycobacterium marinum. | a radiometric respirometric technique (bactec) which is highly standardized for mycobacterium tuberculosis was used for antibiotic susceptibility testing of clinical isolates of m. marinum. ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, rifampicin and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole were effective at clinically relevant concentrations. doxycycline, erythromycin and roxithromycin were ineffective. these in vitro results are discussed in relation to documented clinical experience. | 1993 | 8052821 |
| septic arthritis due to mycobacterium marinum. | we describe a patient with septic arthritis and osteomyelitis of the ring finger due to mycobacterium marinum. a review of the literature shows fewer than 40 reported cases of joint infection with this organism. most of the patients reported had been previously in good health, and had been in contact with fish or otherwise involved in aquatic activities. the arthritis affects mainly the hands or wrists and is insidious in onset. delay in diagnosis, and initial inappropriate treatment with intraa ... | 1994 | 8064742 |
| sporothricoid mycobacterial infection. a case report. | a case of bilateral, symmetric, sporothricoid granulomas involving the dorsa of fingers and wrists is reported. the culture-proved mycobacterium marinum skin infection was acquired by a fish-fancier while clearing his aquarium with bare hands. the patient suffered from chronic hand eczema. treatment with co-trimoxazole was successful. | 1993 | 8103265 |
| identification of the leprosy bacillus and related mycobacteria by analysis of mycocerosate profiles. | members of the phthiocerol dimycocerosate family of waxes were extracted from mycobacterium bovis bcg, mycobacterium tuberculosis, mycobacterium kansasii, mycobacterium marinum, mycobacterium ulcerans and a skin biopsy from a leprosy patient. the waxes were degraded by alkaline hydrolysis and the mycocerosic acids converted to pentafluorobenzyl ester. profiles of the esters, recorded using electron-capture gas-chromatography, gave characteristic profiles for the mycocerosates from m. leprae but ... | 1993 | 8129476 |
| protection of mice against mycobacterial infection by lymphoid cell vaccination. | intracellular parasites may thrive by inducing the host's immune system to suppress the effector immune response that otherwise limits multiplication. hosts are traditionally immunized with the parasite antigens that induce effector immunity. alternatively, one might vaccinate the host with the host lymphoid cells involved in suppression. multiplication of mycobacterium marinum was prevented by vaccinating mice with cells prepared from the popliteal lymph nodes of mice in which the organisms wer ... | 1994 | 8138393 |
| in-vitro activities of quinolones against mycobacteria. | from the results of recently-published in-vitro studies, we have reviewed the activities of novel quinolones which are currently available, either commercially or for investigative purposes, against mycobacterium tuberculosis, the atypical mycobacteria (principally the mycobacterium avium complex, mycobacterium chelonae, mycobacterium xenopi, mycobacterium marinum and mycobacterium fortuitum) and mycobacterium leprae. we have also evaluated the effects of the various methods for determining the ... | 1993 | 8144420 |
| detection and identification of a pathogenic marine mycobacterium from the european seabass dicentrarchus labrax using polymerase chain reaction and direct sequencing of 16s rdna sequences. | mycobacteriosis has become a major concern for the commercial mariculture of the european sea bass dicentrachus labrax in israel. the disease remains asymptomatic for a long time, is virtually impossible to eradicate with antibiotics, stunts the growth of the fish and renders the fish unmarketable. the pathogen was identified as mycobacterium marinum by direct sequencing and analysis of approximately 600 bp of the pathogen ribosomal encoding dna (rdna). the polymerase chain reaction technique wa ... | 1993 | 8293073 |
| [two cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with disseminated non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection]. | two cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) with disseminated non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection are reported. both patients had hemophilia and were infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (hiv) by antihemophilic factor infusion. in case 1, a 44-year-old male, mycobacterium marinum, which ordinarily causes cutaneous infection, was isolated from sputum before death and from the lung, spleen, bone marrow, liver and lymph node at autopsy. this is the first report of disse ... | 1993 | 8294774 |
| [aquarium-borne mycobacterium marinum infection]. | three cases of cutaneous mycobacterium marinum infection are described. all these patients had most probably been infected from home aquariums. in one of the patients, m. marinum was isolated by culturing a biopsy specimen from a lesion. clinical remission was achieved by means of antituberculous triple therapy, trimethoprim-sulfonamide, and no treatment, respectively. | 1993 | 8337642 |
| mycobacterium marinum cutaneous infections acquired from occupations and hobbies. | non-tuberculous mycobacterial (ntb) infections are not commonly diagnosed in thailand. the dissertation of reported cases among 10 published reports of 44 cases within 20 years revealed only six cases of cutaneous infections in which m. marinum was not included. | 1993 | 8340185 |
| mycobacterium marinum skin infections: two case reports. | most infections of soft tissue injury sites are caused by staphylococcus or streptococcus and respond to beta-lactam antibiotics. occasionally, a patient does not respond to routine antibiotics, and other possibilities must be considered. a detailed history of the event that caused the soft tissue injury can be important in the diagnosis. two cases of mycobacterium marinum soft tissue infection (ie, fish tank granuloma) are presented. | 1993 | 8454982 |
| nodular lymphangitis: a distinctive but often unrecognized syndrome. | to describe nodular lymphangitis by reviewing the clinical and epidemiologic features of this disease with an emphasis on distinguishing specific etiologic agents. | 1993 | 8480962 |
| mycobacterium marinum. | 1995 | 8521369 | |
| right hand and arm rash mycobacterium marinum infection. | 1995 | 8542494 | |
| mycobacterium marinum disease in anne arundel county: 1995 update. | a retrospective survey of 41 cases of culture-positive mycobacterium marinum disease in anne arundel county, maryland, showed that most infection was related to recreational exposure to the chesapeake bay and its tributaries. three quarters of cases consisted of skin or joint/tendon infection of the upper extremity, particularly the hand. an empiric drug regimen for a granulomatous soft tissue infection in this context should include rifampin and ethambutol or cotrimoxazole (trimethoprim/sulfame ... | 1995 | 8544670 |
| disseminated mycobacterium marinum infection and bacteremia in a child with severe combined immunodeficiency. | we report an unusual case of disseminated dermatitis, osteomyelitis, and bacteremia in an immunocompromised host. an infant presented with a pustular skin rash resembling chicken pox, but culture of a skin lesion yielded mycobacterium marinum. upon further evaluation, severe combined immunodeficiency was diagnosed. radiographs of the hands and feet showed evidence of osteomyelitis. m. marinum was isolated from blood and synovial fluid. we recommend a high level of suspicion for this organism in ... | 1995 | 8589169 |
| [abscessed skin lesions caused by mycobacterium marinum]. | 1996 | 8695693 | |
| applications for green fluorescent protein (gfp) in the study of host-pathogen interactions. | the green fluorescent protein (gfp) from aequorea victoria is a novel fluorescent marker that has potential use in the study of bacterial pathogenicity. to explore some of the potential applications of gfp to the study of host-parasite interactions, we constructed two gfp expression vectors suitable for different facultative intracellular bacterial pathogens. the first expression vector was tested in the enteric pathogens, salmonella typhimurium and yersinia pseudotuberculosis, and the second ve ... | 1996 | 8707055 |
| mycobacterium marinum infection of the finger. | a case of mycobacterium marinum infection of a finger is described. this is a rare condition in the uk. the relevant literature is reviewed. | 1995 | 8770745 |
| infection of the upper extremity by mycobacterium marinum in a 3-year-old boy--diagnosis by 16s-rdna analysis. | a 3-year-old boy developed several subcutaneous nodular lesions on his right arm. based on the histological examination of one of these nodules furunculosis was suspected and cefuroxime was tentatively given. however, acid-fast bacilli were then detected in the tissue specimen and a few colonies of acid fast, gram-positive rods grew on blood agar. definitive species diagnosis (mycobacterium marinum) was rapidly achieved by automated sequencing of amplified 16s-rdna and antimicrobial therapy was ... | 1996 | 8852464 |
| comparative activity of azithromycin against clinical isolates of mycobacteria. | azithromycin exhibited in-vitro activity against 20 clinical isolates of mycobacterium avium complex for which the mic90 was 32 mg/l and 22 clinical isolates of other mycobacteria but showed no activity against 20 isolates of mycobacterium tuberculosis (mic90 > 128 mg/l) nor against the single isolate of mycobacterium marinum tested (mic 128 mg/l). these results suggest that the drug may prove useful for the prophylaxis and treatment of infections due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria, including m ... | 1996 | 8889727 |
| [mycobacterium marinum skin infection in spain]. | 1996 | 8948935 | |
| in vitro & in vivo experimental susceptibility of mycobacterium marinum to augmentin. | the effect of augmentin alone and in combination with various beta-lactam antibiotics was studied against a pathogenic mycobacterium, m. marinum. the in vitro studies did not reveal any additional advantage over that found with augmentin alone and this antibiotic seemed considerably inhibitory to m. marinum at < 1 microgram/ml concentration. in vivo, the effects of augmentin on experimentally produced lesions in the mouse foot pads (mfps) showed a significant regression of the lesions, which was ... | 1996 | 8979517 |
| mycobacterium marinum causes both long-term subclinical infection and acute disease in the leopard frog (rana pipiens). | mycobacterium marinum grows at an optimal temperature of 33 degrees c, far lower than that for m. tuberculosis. consequently, m. marinum infection of mammals is restricted largely to the cooler surfaces of the body, such as the extremities, but it causes a systemic infection in a large number of poikilothermic animals. here, we describe a laboratory animal model for m. marinum disease in the leopard frog (rana pipiens), a natural host species. m. marinum causes a chronic granulomatous, nonlethal ... | 1997 | 9009340 |
| [a case of arthritis of the wrist caused by mycobacterium marinum. review of the literature]. | the authors report the case of a woman aquarium keeper who developed septic arthritis of her right wrist due to mycobacterium marinum. clinical status and history, histopathologic and microbiologic characteristics are reviewed and discussed. the authors emphasize the importance of urgent and aggressive surgery combined with antimicrobial chemotherapy. | 1996 | 9026056 |
| facial sporotrichoid infection with mycobacterium marinum. | we report a case of mycobacterium marinum facial sporotrichoid infection in an otherwise healthy 2-year-old child, probably acquired through contact with pets in an aquarium. the m. marinum isolate was susceptible to clarithromycin, and the child was successfully treated with oral antibiotic therapy. this unusual case emphasizes the importance of a thorough history in the evaluation of a patient with chronic sporotrichoid skin lesions. | 1997 | 9042142 |
| antimicrobial treatment of fish tank granuloma. | three patients with fish tank granuloma of the hand and forearm are reported. each patient was treated with antimicrobial regimes which have rarely or never been previously used in this condition. two patients responded well to treatment, one who received ciprofloxacin plus clarithromycin and another who was given clarithromycin plus ethambutol. the third patient received six different antimicrobial regimes before responding to a combination of rifabutin and ciprofloxacin. our experience suggest ... | 1997 | 9061551 |
| [cutaneous infections by mycobacterium marinum. description of 3 cases and review of the literature]. | human infection by mycobacterium marinum is infrequent and is currently reported in association with the management of aquariums. the epidemiologic, clinical and microbiologic characteristics of three cases in our hospital are herein reported. | 1997 | 9101751 |
| direct detection and identification of mycobacterium ulcerans in clinical specimens by pcr and oligonucleotide-specific capture plate hybridization. | we compared various diagnostic tests for their abilities to detect mycobacterium ulcerans infection in specimens from patients with clinically active disease. specimens from 10 patients from the area of zangnanado (department of zou, benin) with advanced, ulcerated active m. ulcerans infections were studied by direct smear, histopathology, culture, pcr, and oligonucleotide-specific capture plate hybridization (oscph). a total of 27 specimens, including 12 swabs of exudate collected before debrid ... | 1997 | 9114387 |
| differential trafficking of live and dead mycobacterium marinum organisms in macrophages. | we characterized the mycobacterium marinum phagosome by using a variety of endocytic markers to follow the path of the bacteria through a mouse macrophage cell line. using a laser confocal microscope, we found that the majority of viable m. marinum cells were in nonacidic vacuoles that did not colocalize with the vacuolar proton atpase (v-atpase), the calcium-independent mannose-6-phosphate receptor (ci-m6pr), or cathepsin d. in contrast, heat-killed organisms and latex beads were in acidic vacu ... | 1997 | 9119492 |
| fish tank granuloma in a 14-month-old girl. | a 14-month-old girl developed a persistent ulcerated nodule on her right lower leg associated with further nodules along the thigh. a clinical diagnosis of fish tank granuloma was suspected because of tropical fish tanks at home. the diagnosis was confirmed when mycobacterium marinum was isolated from low-temperature culture of skin tissue. the child made a complete recovery following treatment with rifampicin for 6 months despite in vitro sensitivity tests reporting resistance. m. marinum infec ... | 1997 | 9192414 |
| application of the etest to the antimicrobial susceptibility testing of mycobacterium marinum clinical isolates. | mycobacterium marinum, a well-recognized cutaneous pathogen, is usually treated by chemotherapy without available standardized in vitro susceptibility testing information. in this study, we have attempted to apply the stable-gradient method (etest; ab biodisk, solna, sweden) to susceptibility testing of m. marinum in order to assess the activities of eight antimicrobial agents against 60 recent clinical strains of m. marinum collected from 10 geographic sites within the united states. two plated ... | 1997 | 9230386 |
| [mycobacterium marinum as the rare cause of a chronic skin and soft-tissue infection]. | 1997 | 9264926 | |
| mycobacterium marinum skin infection successfully treated with levofloxacin. | 1997 | 9267238 | |
| images in clinical medicine. mycobacterium marinum infection of the hand. | 1997 | 9271484 | |
| a crtb homolog essential for photochromogenicity in mycobacterium marinum: isolation, characterization, and gene disruption via homologous recombination. | a gene essential for light-induced pigment production was isolated from the photochromogen mycobacterium marinum by heterologous complementation of an m. marinum cosmid library in the nonchromogen mycobacterium smegmatis. this gene is part of an operon and homologous to the streptomyces griseus and myxococcus xanthus crtb genes encoding phytoene synthase. gene replacement at this locus was achieved via homologous recombination, demonstrating that its expression is essential for photochromogenici ... | 1997 | 9294446 |
| [mycobacterium marinum. a rare cause of infection of the skin and joints]. | mycobacterium marinum is a rare cause of disseminated infection in man. the case report describes an 80-year-old woman, who had been treated with oral corticosteroids for bronchial asthma for 40 years, and in the same period had been swimming daily in swimming pools. at the first admission, the symptoms and clinical findings were interpreted as seronegative rheumatoid arthritis. after eight years of disease with recurrent infections of the skin, periarticular tissues and joints in the hands and ... | 1997 | 9304271 |
| direct detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in clinical samples from patients in norway by ligase chain reaction. | our aim was to investigate the use of dna amplification with the ligase chain reaction (lcr) for detection of the mycobacterium tuberculosis complex directly in human clinical specimens. the lcr assay employed was the abbott lcx mtb assay, which uses the gene encoding protein antigen b as the target template. four hundred eighty-two samples from 457 patients in one clinical microbiology laboratory in norway were processed by routine culture analysis (bactec culture), direct microscopy (ziehl-nee ... | 1997 | 9399528 |
| mycobacterium marinum infection causing septic arthritis and osteomyelitis. | a 48-yr-old female on immunosuppressive therapy for fibrosing alveolitis and polymyositis developed a septic arthritis of the left middle finger proximal interphalangeal joint, tenosynovitis of the left palm and osteomyelitis of the right hindfoot due to infection with mycobacterium marinum. such widespread and severe bone and joint involvement has not been described previously with this organism. | 1997 | 9402866 |
| osteomyelitis and tenosynovitis due to mycobacterium marinum in a fish dealer. | osteomyelitis caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria is rarely reported. we describe a case of tenosynovitis and osteomyelitis of the right middle finger and metacarpal bone caused by mycobacterium marinum in a fish dealer. this 52-year-old woman suffered progressive pain, numbness, tenderness, and erythematous swelling of the right middle finger over a 2-month period. a radiograph of the right hand disclosed osteolytic lesions at the third metacarpal bone and the third proximal phalanx. she was ... | 1997 | 9409126 |
| [persistent tuberous plaque in a finger]. | 1997 | 9411574 | |
| fish tank granuloma--a frequently misdiagnosed infection of the upper limb. | five patients attended the accident and emergency (a&e) department with fish tank granuloma caused by an infection with mycobacterium marinum. all patients had forearm symptoms which were initially misdiagnosed. they were later recognised by the presence of superficial cutaneous lesions in a sporotrichotic distribution. definitive diagnosis was confirmed by the histological appearances of a biopsy and or culture of the organism. all patients responded to oral minocycline and had uncomplicated re ... | 1997 | 9413782 |
| fish tank granuloma--an unusual cause of skin infection. | 1997 | 9440925 | |
| primary intravascular lymphomatosis associated with mycobacterium marinum. | intravascular lymphomatosis (i.v.l.) is a rare condition in which neoplastic cells preferentially infiltrate blood vessels of the central nervous system. nonspecific symptoms associated with i.v.l. include dementia, seizures, and multifocal cerebrovascular events. i.v.l. was discovered at autopsy of a patient whose neurological deficits were predated by a particularly aggressive form of mycobacterium marinum soft-tissue infection. it is speculated that i.v.l. may have had an occult effect on the ... | 1998 | 9442593 |
| identification of mycobacteria infecting fish to the species level using polymerase chain reaction and restriction enzyme analysis. | an assay is described utilizing pcr technology for a rapid diagnostic test to identify fish infection with mycobacterium marinum, m. fortuitum and m. chelonae. a 924 bp dna fragment from a highly conserved area of the mycobacterial 16s rrna gene was amplified using mycobacteria genus-specific primers and digested with restriction enzymes (bani and apai). this examination yielded unique restriction patterns for each mycobacterial specie enabling identification of mycobacteria infecting fish to th ... | 1997 | 9453133 |
| inteins in mycobacterial gyra are a taxonomic character. | the a subunit of dna gyrase in mycobacteria is frequently subjected to splicing events as its gene, gyra, harbours an insertion encoding an intein. investigation of a number of different isolates of mycobacterium kansasii, mycobacterium malmoense, mycobacterium marinum, mycobacterium ulcerans and mycobacterium xenopi demonstrated that the presence of gyra inteins is not random but a taxonomic character specific for a given taxon at a species or subspecies level. | 1998 | 9493395 |
| verrucous nodule of the finger. | 1998 | 9521036 | |
| mycobacterial phagosome maturation, rab proteins, and intracellular trafficking. | one of the most prominent features of pathogenic mycobacteria, which include the potent human pathogens mycobacterium tuberculosis and mycobacterium leprae and their opportunistic relatives mycobacterium avium and mycobacterium marinum, is their ability to survive and multiply in phagosomes of mononuclear phagocytic cells. the phagocytosed mycobacteria reside in a vacuolar compartment which is exempted from maturation into the phagolysosome. recently, the arrest of the maturation of phagosomes c ... | 1997 | 9527483 |
| differentiation of mycobacterium ulcerans, m. marinum, and m. haemophilum: mapping of their relationships to m. tuberculosis by fatty acid profile analysis, dna-dna hybridization, and 16s rrna gene sequence analysis. | although mycobacterium ulcerans, m. marinum, and m. haemophilum are closely related, their exact taxonomic placements have not been determined. we performed gas chromatography of fatty acids and alcohols, as well as dna-dna hybridization and 16s rrna gene sequence analysis, to clarify their relationships to each other and to m. tuberculosis. m. ulcerans and m. marinum were most closely related to one another, and each displayed very strong genetic affinities to m. tuberculosis; they are actually ... | 1998 | 9542909 |
| goldfish, carassius auratus, a novel animal model for the study of mycobacterium marinum pathogenesis. | we have developed an animal model for studying mycobacterial pathogenesis using mycobacterium marinum and the goldfish, carassius auratus. goldfish are injected intraperitoneally with doses between 10(2) and 10(9) cfu of m. marinum organisms. depending on the dose of m. marinum organisms administered, an acute or chronic disease is produced. the acute disease is characterized by systemic mycobacterial infection, severe peritonitis, tissue necrosis, and a short median survival time. the chronic d ... | 1998 | 9596770 |
| concurrent infection due to shewanella putrefaciens and mycobacterium marinum acquired at the beach. | infection with marine bacteria is uncommon. a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus who developed concurrent infection with shewanella putrefaciens and mycobacterium marinum (m. marinum) is described. after bathing leg ulcers in sea water, severe cellulitis of the left leg with necrotic areas and extensive bullae developed. infection due to s. putrefaciens was confirmed and a long course of hospitalization, oral ciprofloxacin and skin grafting was required. during hospitalization subcutaneou ... | 1998 | 9611378 |
| mycobacterium marinum wrist arthritis: local and systematic dissemination caused by concomitant immunosuppressive therapy. | the diagnostic difficulties and the potential serious course of mycobacterium marinum synovitis are illustrated in a patient in whom treatment with local steroid injections and immunosuppressive therapy resulted in local destruction of the wrist and systemic reactions. healing was achieved after correct medical and surgical treatment was initiated. | 1998 | 9670365 |
| electron microscope studies of the in vitro phagocytosis of mycobacterium spp. by rainbow trout oncorhynchus mykiss head kidney macrophages. | the cytological response of rainbow trout oncorhynchus mykiss head kidney macrophages to ingested mycobacterium spp. was examined in vitro. mycobacterium marinum or mycobacterium sp. tb267 isolated from snakehead fish channa striata bloch were opsonised with either fresh rainbow trout serum, serum which had been heat-inactivated, or rainbow trout antiserum against the extracellular products (ecp) of the 2 mycobacterium spp. a monoclonal antibody against the ecp was also used as an opsonin. suspe ... | 1998 | 9676251 |
| oxidative stress response and characterization of the oxyr-ahpc and fura-katg loci in mycobacterium marinum. | oxidative stress response in pathogenic mycobacteria is believed to be of significance for host-pathogen interactions at various stages of infection. it also plays a role in determining the intrinsic susceptibility to isoniazid in mycobacterial species. in this work, we characterized the oxyr-ahpc and fura-katg loci in the nontuberculous pathogen mycobacterium marinum. in contrast to mycobacterium smegmatis and like mycobacterium tuberculosis and mycobacterium leprae, m. marinum was shown to pos ... | 1998 | 9733688 |
| mycobacterium marinum: chronic and extensive infections of the lower limbs in south pacific islanders. | we report three adult cases of very chronic, extensive infection of the lower limbs due to mycobacterium marinum. the patients were from south pacific islands and, clinically, the widespread warty plaques resembled chromomycosis. one was associated with severe lymphoedema. all three patients gave a history of at least 20 years duration. the patients were otherwise well and not immunologically compromised. in all cases, the organism was identified on tissue cultures and was not seen on histopatho ... | 1998 | 9737045 |
| the identification of mycobacterium marinum genes differentially expressed in macrophage phagosomes using promoter fusions to green fluorescent protein. | mycobacterium marinum, like mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a slow-growing pathogenic mycobacteria that is able to survive and replicate in macrophages. using the promoter-capture vector pfpv27, we have constructed a library of 200-1000 bp fragments of m. marinum genomic dna inserted upstream of a promoterless green fluorescent protein (gfp) gene. only those plasmids that contain an active promoter will express gfp. macrophages were infected with this fusion library, and phagosomes containing flu ... | 1998 | 9767585 |
| [mycobacterium marinum skin infections, apropos of a case]. | 1998 | 9780437 | |
| [painful nodular lesions]. | 1998 | 9793156 | |
| an unusual case of flexor sheath tenosynovitis. | we report a case of a flexor sheath tenosynovitis caused by mycobacterium marinum. | 1998 | 9821624 |
| septic arthritis of the hand and wrist. | septic arthritis of the hand and wrist is relatively uncommon. the most common cause is penetrating trauma such as a human or animal bite. the most common causative organism is staphylococcus aureus. septic arthritis caused by streptococcal species. haemophilus influenzae, pseudomonas aeruginosa, serratia species, neisseria gonorrhoeae, pasteurella multocida, eikenella corrodens, and mycobacterium marinum also may occur in specific clinical settings. the best clinical results occur following an ... | 1998 | 9884896 |
| atypical hand infections. | the diagnosis and treatment of an atypical hand infection present a distinctive challenge for the hand surgeon. infections caused by these uncommon organisms occur more often in immunocompromised patients. this article emphasizes the salient features of mycobacterial, nocardial, and fungal infections of the hand. with an accurate and timely diagnosis, appropriate surgical and pharmacologic treatment may eradicate these unusual infections. | 1998 | 9884899 |
| polymerase chain reaction-reverse cross-blot hybridization assay in the diagnosis of sporotrichoid mycobacterium marinum infection. | in this paper, we report a patient in whom mycobacterium marinum sporotrichoid infection was diagnosed using polymerase chain reaction (pcr) amplification of the 16s rrna gene and subsequent analysis of the amplified product in a reverse cross-blot hybridization assay with mycobacterial species-specific probes. this molecular method allowed us rapidly to detect and identify this organism directly in the patient's lesional skin biopsy rather than in cultures in conventional media. the identificat ... | 1998 | 9892957 |
| fish tank granuloma: response to treatment with clarithromycin. | 1999 | 10188167 | |
| pain and swelling along the nail fold of a 51-year-old man. | 1998 | 10217741 | |
| picture of the month. mycobacterium marinum facial abscess. | 1999 | 10323638 | |
| health and safety concerns in fisheries and aquaculture. | only 10% of all foodborne illnesses in the united states are attributed to seafood, making seafood a relatively safe food commodity. the implementation of hazard analysis and critical control points guidelines should make seafood consumption even safer. concerns include closed-loop, indoor, water-recirculating production systems; harmful algal blooms in marine environments, which can cause paralytic, neurologic, amnesic, and diarrhetic shellfish poisonings and ciguatera fish poisoning; bacteria ... | 1999 | 10329911 |
| atypical mycobacterial cutaneous infection. | 1999 | 10330598 | |
| the mycobacterium marinum g13 promoter is a strong sigma 70-like promoter that is expressed in escherichia coli and mycobacteria species. | a mycobacterium marinum promoter, designated g13, was isolated from a promoter-trap library as a constitutive producer of the mutant green fluorescent protein. sequence analysis, primer extension analysis, and computer promoter prediction analysis indicate that the g13 promoter is very similar to escherichia coli consensus sigma 70 promoters. expression of the green fluorescent protein from the g13 promoter in m. marinum is, however, up to 40 times higher than that seen from the mycobacterial hs ... | 1999 | 10361711 |