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Report of a Case

Eugene M. Hoyt, JD, MD

JAMA. 1981;245(15):1556-1557.

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COAGULASE-POSITIVE Staphylococcus aureus is the most frequently isolated organism in acute paronychia. As the paronychia becomes more chronic, fungal, viral, and mycobacterial causes should be considered. Tuberculous involvement of the skin is very rare; less than 1% of all tuberculosis today manifests as primary inoculation tuberculosis. The most notable example of primary inoculation tuberculosis is the prosector's wart acquired by pathologists and their assistants from inoculation by tuberculous cadavers.¹

Report of a Case

A 24-year-old physician's assistant student in the Emory University Intensive Respiratory Care Program, Atlanta, complained of submandibular and axillary adenopathy that had been present since March 1979, following a sore throat. Cultures had been obtained and no bacterial cause was defined. She did not respond to penicillin G potassium therapy. Lassitude persisted through the spring and a heterophile antibody was obtained in September 1979. It was positive monospecific.

When the patient was seen at the Emory . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta.

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