Rhodococcus infection of the skin with lymphadenitis in a nonimmunocompromised girl
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T Martin1, D J Hogan, F Murphy
1Department of Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|February 1, 1991
Abstract:
A 7-year-old girl had a 4 X 3 X 3 cm nodule on the left wrist with axillary lymphadenopathy. Acid-fast bacilli were seen on a smear from a biopsy specimen of this granulomatous skin lesion. A Rhodococcus species grew on culture. Skin infections caused by Rhodococcus may be more common than the few prior case reports suggest.