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Identification of Virulence Markers of Mycobacterium abscessus for Intracellular Replication in Phagocytes
Published on: September 27, 2018
A surprising foreign body abscess
Benedikt Kolbrink1, Felix Braun2, Kevin Schulte1
1Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, 24105 Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Abstract:
An abscess is a common complication after surgical interventions. Furthermore, abscesses of different genesis often occur under immunosuppression. In the case of a kidney transplant patient described here, however, the cause of an abscess-like mass in the abdomen was an unusual one, the etiology of which we could only clarify after surgical removal.
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