Atypical Wound Pathogens. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • BACKGROUND: Atypical wound pathogens may be so described because they are uncommon pathogens of soft tissue among human beings, or because they may be fastidious and difficult to recover/isolate in the laboratory. METHODS: A review of pertinent English-language literature was performed. RESULTS: These wound pathogens are a diverse lot, including aerobic and anaerobic gram-positive and gram-negative bacilli, non-tuberculous mycobacteria, and bacteria that cannot be characterized conventionally because they lack a cell wall (the Mycoplasmataceae). They are diverse with respect to their virulence, but many are opportunistic pathogens. CONCLUSIONS: Among these atypical pathogens, clinical reports are most common of wound infections caused by Mycoplasma/Ureaplasma (sometimes as co-infecting agents), and the so-called rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria (Runyon Type IV; e.g., M. chelonae).

publication date

  • January 1, 2017

Research

keywords

  • Surgical Wound Infection

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85019679485

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1089/sur.2017.100

PubMed ID

  • 28541806

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 18

issue

  • 4