An immunocompetent 52-year-old man presented with lesions and inflammation on his left arm after lacerating his index finger while cleaning a fish tank (Figure 1). The lesions appeared at the ...

Iguanas, those pesky green critters that come out in full force during the summer months in South Florida, are more than just a nuisance. They also pose health risks. While touching an iguana or its ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. As infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are rapidly increasing globally, a need exists for developing novel antibiotics and ...

A 3-year-old girl’s holiday in Costa Rica was ruined by an iguana in more ways than one. The scaly reptile stole her cake, but not before biting her hand and transmitting a rare bacterial infection ...

Charlie Parks' hand is swollen and painful, but worse than that, he's frustrated. His right hand is infected with a strain of water-borne bacteria known as Mycobacterium marinum — all the way into the ...

Mycobacterium marinum does not typically grow at normal body temperature, which is why it remains localized to the cooler skin surface. Overall, diagnosis and treatment of this unusual skin infection ...

AN AQUARIUM cleaner was struck down with an “incredibly rare” form of fish tuberculosis because he bit his nails, an employment tribunal has heard. Joshua Hodges ground his nails “very low” — to the ...

A skin infection linked to exposure to contaminated water in home aquariums is frequently under-diagnosed. Researchers say diagnosing and managing Mycobacterium marinum infection is difficult because ...

A case report to be presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) shows how a cake-induced iguana encounter in Costa Rica led to an unusual infection. Here ...

Doctors can't stop flesh-eating fish tank bacteria that may claim teen's hand. Jun. 15, 2011— -- What started as a small scrape from corner of the family's fish tank five years ago may end in the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The ESX-1 (ESAT-6-system-1) system and the protein substrates it transports are essential for mycobacterial pathogenesis. The precise ways ...

The fish bacteria doesn't cause a lung infection in humans but does cause a strange symptom AN AQUARIUM cleaner was struck down with an “incredibly rare” form of fish tuberculosis because he bit his ...