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Volume 21, Number 9—September 2015

CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Mycobacterium abscessus Complex Infections in Humans

Meng-Rui Lee, Wang-Huei Sheng, Chien-Ching Hung, Chong-Jen Yu, Li-Na Lee, and Po-Ren HsuehComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan (M.-R. Lee, W.-H. Sheng, C.-C. Hung, C.-J. Yu, L.-N. Lee, P.-R. Hsueh); National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (M.-R. Lee, W.-H. Sheng, C.-C. Hung, C.-J. Yu, L.-N. Lee, P.-R. Hsueh)

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Figure 4

Skin lesions caused by Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. abscessus. A) Diffuse erythematous papular eruptions on the face and bilateral cervical lymphadenitis in a middle-aged man. B) A circumscribed subcutaneous nodule with pus discharge on the right arm of a 12-year-old boy. C) Wound infection over both upper eyelids of a 36-year-old woman; the infection developed 1 week after cosmetic surgery.

Figure 4. Skin lesions caused by Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. abscessus. A) Diffuse erythematous papular eruptions on the face and bilateral cervical lymphadenitis in a middle-aged man. B) A circumscribed subcutaneous nodule with pus discharge on the right arm of a 12-year-old boy. C) Wound infection over both upper eyelids of a 36-year-old woman; the infection developed 1 week after cosmetic surgery.

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