• Clin. Exp. Dermatol. · Jan 2008

    Case Reports

    Mycobacterium marinum infection complicating Crohn's disease, treated with infliximab.

    • J C Fallon, S Patchett, C Gulmann, and G M Murphy.
    • Department of Dermatology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. fallonjason@hotmail.com
    • Clin. Exp. Dermatol. 2008 Jan 1;33(1):43-5.

    AbstractTumour necrosis factor-alpha inhibitors including infliximab are often used to treat a number of recalcitrant medical conditions. These agents are increasingly associated with infections, particularly mycobacterial infections. We report sporotrichoid spread of Mycobacterium marinum in a 37-year-old woman with Crohn's disease, who had been receiving infliximab infusions for 2 years. An infection had spread up the right leg, after she had been swimming on holiday in the Canary Islands. M. marinum was cultured from the lesions and also identified by PCR on formalin-fixed tissue. To our knowledge, this is the first report of M. marinum occurring in a patient receiving infliximab.

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