Cutaneous inoculation tuberculosis secondary to 'jailhouse tattooing'

Horney, D. A.

doi:10.1001/archderm.121.5.648

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“…These organisms can cause skin and soft tissue infections after surgical procedures, trauma and injections with nonsterile instruments [4]. Tattooing is rarely incriminated in mycobacterial infections [5,6,7], and M. abscessus has never been isolated after tattooing. We describe a case of M. abscessus skin infection diagnosed in an otherwise healthy Brazilian man a few days after a tattoo session.…”

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<i>Mycobacterium abscessus</i> Skin Infection after Tattooing: First Case Report and Review of the Literature

Bechara¹,

Macheras

Heym

et al. 2010

Dermatology

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Mycobacterium abscessus is a species of rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM). This species can cause skin and soft tissue infections after trauma or surgical procedures, pulmonary infections and disseminated diseases in immunocompromised patients. It has been rarely documented after tattoo procedures. Herein we describe the case of a 51-year- old man who presented with erythematous papules over a tattoo on the back 10 days after a tattoo session. Culture revealed M. abscessus. Tattoo infections, clinical features and treatment options due to RGM are reviewed.

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<i>Mycobacterium abscessus</i> Skin Infection after Tattooing: First Case Report and Review of the Literature

Bechara¹,

Macheras

Heym

et al. 2010

Dermatology

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“…This clinical variant has followed ritual circumcision (5), mouth-to-mouth resuscitation [6], inoculation of labora tory guinea pigs [7], injections with poorly sterilized nee dles [8], ear piercing [9], intramuscular injections given by a nurse with active tuberculosis [10], tattooing [11], insect bites 112], sexual intercourse leading to venereal inocula tion [13][14][15] and venipuncture in an infant [16], Nowadays, tuberculous chancre, just as other clinical forms of cuta neous tuberculosis, has decreased in frequency because of the improvement of the standard of living, availability of effective antituberculous antibiotics and elimination of infected milk herds [8,17], thus it has been almost restricted to those whose occupations resulted in occasional exposure to M. tuberculosis: autopsy staff, laboratory workers, surgeons, anatomists, veterinarians, farmers and butchers [17][18][19].…”

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Tuberculous Chancre in the Partner of an Intravenous Drug Abuser

Garciandia

Conejo‐Mir²,

Casals³

et al. 1994

Dermatology

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We report a 26-year-old housemaid whose partner was an intravenous drug abuser with undiagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis. The patient presented with a painless chin ulcer with an elevated irregular border and a firm, nontender submandibular adenopathy. The lesion had been present for 2 months and did not respond to antibiotic therapy. The tuberculin test was positive, and a biopsy and Löwenstein culture confirmed the diagnosis of cutaneous chancre. The patient was treated with rifampicin, isoniazid and pyrazinamide and, after 6 months of treatment, she developed scrofuloderma which had to be surgically removed. After 1 year of follow-up, the lesions had totally cleared.

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“…Cutaneous inoculation is also a rare route of transmission, reported in some accidental cases among health-care workers [ 48 , 49 ], or in patients following corticosteroid injections or skin trauma [ 50 ] and tattooing [ 51 ]. This route of inoculation results in primary cutaneous tuberculosis.…”

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The puzzle of the evolutionary natural history of tuberculosis

Fellag

Loukil

2021

New Microbes and New Infections

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Several pieces of the puzzle of the natural history of tuberculosis are assembled in this review to illustrate the potential reservoirs and sources of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) mycobacteria, their transmission to animals and humans, and their fate in populations, in a co-evolutionary perspective. Millennia-old companions of mammalian and human populations, MTBC are detected in the soil, in which they infect and survive within vegetative amoebae and cysts, except for Mycobacterium canettii . Never detected in the sphere of plants, they are transmissible by transcutaneous, digestive and respiratory routes and cause an infection of the lymphatic system with secondary dissemination in most tissues, in which they determine a specific and non-pathognomonic granulomatous inflammatory reaction; in which MTBC survives in dormant form irrespective of MTBC species and mammalian species; indicating that the current epidemiology in mammalian populations is essentially governed by the probabilities of contact between mammalian species and MTBC species. Individual variabilities in clinical expression of tuberculosis are related to MTBC species, strain and inoculum; host genetic factors; acquired modulations of the inflammatory response; and probably human microbiota. This review of the literature suggests an evolutionary natural history of telluric environmental mycobacteria, satellites of unicellular eukaryotes, transmissible to mammals via the digestive and then respiratory tracts, in which they determine a fatal contagious infection that is primarily lymphatic and a quiescence-mimicking encysted form. This review opens perspectives for microbiological and translational medical research.

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Cutaneous inoculation tuberculosis secondary to 'jailhouse tattooing'

Cited by 21 publications

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<i>Mycobacterium abscessus</i> Skin Infection after Tattooing: First Case Report and Review of the Literature

<i>Mycobacterium abscessus</i> Skin Infection after Tattooing: First Case Report and Review of the Literature

Tuberculous Chancre in the Partner of an Intravenous Drug Abuser

The puzzle of the evolutionary natural history of tuberculosis

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