• Revista médica de Chile · Nov 2023

    Case Reports

    Fish tank granuloma not associated to Mycobacterium marinum but to Microbacterium paraoxydans.

    • Alberto Fica, Alejandra Kutscher, Carla Lillo, Gabriela Bustamante, Javier Olmos, Jorge Hernández, and Juan Vargas.
    • Servicio de Medicina, Hospital Base de Valdivia, Chile.
    • Rev Med Chil. 2023 Nov 1; 151 (11): 153815411538-1541.

    AbstractFish tank granuloma has traditionally been associated with Mycobacterium marinum. We report the case of a 54 old-year woman that worked in a freshwater fish pet store and developed a skin ulcer in a hand finger with a suppurative granuloma secondary to Microbacterium paraoxydans. This is a bacterial fish pathogen, rarely observed in human infections. Identification was performed by colony morphology and MALDI-TOF. She evolved satisfactorily after receiving a sequential treatment with beta-lactams and linezolid. To our knowledge, it is the first known description of this type.

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