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Muhannad A Alsemari1, Hakeam A Hakeam2, Hussain Alsalman3
1Department of Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia.
Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease
|September 14, 2020
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High-dose tigecycline therapy is gaining wide acceptance in treating infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria. There are no reports of cutaneous hyperpigmentation with the use of high-dose tigecycline. Here we report a case of a woman who developed reversible cutaneous hyperpigmentation within 48 h of receiving high-dose tigecycline.
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