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Nocardia cyriacigeorgica infections attributable to unlicensed cosmetic procedures--an emerging public health problem?
Apostolou, A., Bolcen, S. J., Dave, V., Jani, N., Lasker, B. A., Tan, C. G., Montana, B., Brown, J. M., & Genese, C. A. (2012). Nocardia cyriacigeorgica infections attributable to unlicensed cosmetic procedures--an emerging public health problem?Clinical Infectious Diseases, 55(2), 251-3. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cis341
We describe an outbreak of Nocardia cyriacigeorgica soft-tissue infections attributable to unlicensed cosmetic injections and the first report using multilocus sequence typing sequence data for determining Nocardia strain relatedness in an outbreak. All 8 cases identified had a common source exposure and required hospitalization, surgical debridement, and prolonged antimicrobial therapy.