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Volume 23 |Article ID 342620 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/342620

Jaclyn LeBlanc, Duncan Webster, Gregory J Tyrrell, Isabelle Chiu, "Mycobacterium marinum Infection from Sea Monkeys", Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, vol. 23, Article ID 342620, 3 pages, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/342620

Mycobacterium marinum Infection from Sea Monkeys

Jaclyn LeBlanc,1 Duncan Webster,2 Gregory J Tyrrell,3 and Isabelle Chiu4

1Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Dalhousie University, New Brunswick, Canada

2Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

3The Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (Microbiology) and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

4Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Abstract

A case of cutaneous Mycobacterium marinum infection acquired from Artemia nyos (sea monkeys) is presented. The infection was unresponsive to initial antimicrobial therapies. A biopsy of a lesion revealed granulomatous inflammation with cultures that subsequently grew M marinum. A three-month course of clarithromycin provided complete resolution.

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