The case of infectious. Actinomyketone

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Published: 1983-12-15

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Colaboración del Servicio de Ortopedia ISS-UPB y de la Corporación de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB). (1983). The case of infectious. Actinomyketone. Medicina UPB, 2(2), 43-47. https://revistas.upb.edu.co/index.php/medicina/article/view/6451
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Colaboración del Servicio de Ortopedia ISS-UPB y de la Corporación de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB).
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Abstract

A case of actinomycetoma of the knee in a 17 vears-old patíent is reported. The simultaneous presence of edema, draining sinuses and granules in the exudate suggested the diagnosis. N. brssiliensis, was isolated in culture. Combined antimicrobial (Trimethoprim·sulfamethoxozale) and surgery resulted in marked clinical improvement.

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Actinomycetoma N, Brasiliensis, Trimethoprim- sulfametoxazole

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Colaboración del Servicio de Ortopedia ISS-UPB y de la Corporación de Investigaciones Biológicas (CIB)., Pontifical Bolivarian University

The coordination was in charge of Doctors Gloria Velásquez de V and Jaime Robledo R., students of the Advanced Training Program in Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, and Doctor Fabio Maya A., student of Advanced Training in Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Faculty of Medicine. from the Pontifical Bolivarian University.

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