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Nocardia cyriacigeorgica infections attributable to unlicensed cosmetic procedures--an emerging public health problem?
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Jul 2012
Apostolou Andria, Bolcen Shanna J, Dave Vaidehi, Jani Nisha, Lasker Brent A, Tan Christina G, Montana Barbara, Brown June M, Genese Carol A
Abstract excerpt
We describe an outbreak of Nocardia cyriacigeorgica soft-tissue infections attributable to unlicensed cosmetic injections and the first report using multilocus sequence typing sequence data for determining Nocardia strain relatedness in an outbreak. All 8 cases identified had a common source exposure and required hospitalization, surgical debridement, and prolonged antimicrobial therapy.
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