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- Title
Unusual Cultaneous Manifestations of Miliary Tuberculosis.
- Authors
del Giudice, Pascal; Bernard, Evelyne; Perrin, Christophe; Bernardin, Gilles; Fouche, Renaud; Boissy, Christian; Durant, Jacques; Dellamonica, Pierre
- Abstract
Examines the case of an aged woman with miliary tuberculosis (MT) with non-typical cutaneous manifestations of the disease. Isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli via various types of cultures; Isolation of acid-fast bacilli via biopsy specimens; Evidence that acute MT of the skin is an exceptional manifestation due to acute hematogenous dissemination of M. tuberculosis to the skin.
- Subjects
MYCOBACTERIUM tuberculosis; CUTANEOUS manifestations of general diseases
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2000, Vol 30, Issue 1, p201
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/313587