Cause Analysis of an Infection in Facelift Surgery Due to Mycobacterium chelonae.

ABSTRACT: We report a post-facelift infection due to Mycobacterium chelonae. An environmental strain recovered from the water supply network of the surgical clinic and the clinical strains were considered non-differentiable using whole genome sequencing. After the unhealed wound's exposure to M. chelonae while showering early at the clinic after surgery, a lasting exposure of the colonized wound to the warm and moist working conditions of a bakery may have been favorable to the infection's development.

SUBMITTER: Decalonne M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6853863 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature