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Joaquín Bermejo¹, María Laura Pascale, Noemí Borda

¹Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Español, Sarmiento 3150, S2001SBL Rosario, Argentina. jbermejo@arnet.com.ar

Revista De La Facultad De Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina)

|January 5, 2013

Abstract:

We describe two cases of surgical site infections due to Mycobacterium fortuitum after plastic surgery. Both patients were assisted by the same surgeon on differents hospitals. Both patients received combined antibiotic treatment and surgical debridement or multiple aspirative punctures. The final evolutions were satisfactory.

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