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Skin infection caused by Mycobacterium szulgai after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

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Infections are responsible for a large part of the morbidity and mortality after BMT because of the sustained impairment of host defenses. We report a case of cutaneous infection caused by Mycobacterium szulgai in a boy who underwent BMT with marrow from a matched unrelated donor.

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  1. Uppsala University Children's Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

    P Frisk & G Lönnerholm

  2. Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

    G Boman

  3. Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

    K Pauksen

  4. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Hospital and Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    B Petrini

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Frisk, P., Boman, G., Pauksen, K. et al. Skin infection caused by Mycobacterium szulgai after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 31, 511–513 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1703861

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