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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Community-acquired mastitis due to Mycobacterium abscessus: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Community-acquired mastitis due to Mycobacterium abscessus a case report Maria Bruna Pasticci 1 Luigi Maria Lapalorcia1 Giacomo Antonini2 Antonella Mencacci3 Rosanna Mazzolla3 and Franco Baldelli1 Address infectious Disease Section Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences University of Perugia Perugia Italy 2Section Emergency Surgery Hospital Santa Maria della Misericordia Perugia Italy and 3Microbiology Section Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences University of Perugia Perugia Italy Email Maria Bruna Pasticci - pasticci@ Luigi Maria Lapalorcia - luly1978@ Giacomo Antonini - giacomoantonini@ Antonella Mencacci - mencacci@ Rosanna Mazzolla - rmazzolla@ Franco Baldelli - rprof2f1@ Corresponding author Published 17 November 2009 Received 18 October 2008 _ r- n -mno J. .IA I lozmri I- A Accepted 17 November 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 130 doi I86 I752-I947-3-I30 This article is available from http content 3 1 130 2009 Pasticci et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing mycobacterium usually causing skin and soft tissue infections in immunocompetent patients following contaminated traumatic or surgical wounds or contaminated injected medications. Disseminated infections and pulmonary infections are usually reported in immunocompromised hosts. Case presentation We describe a 54-year-old Caucasian woman with mastitis due to M. abscessus. A few days after clinical evidence of mastitis the patient was started on broad-spectrum antibiotics. .