Late‐Onset Posttraumatic Skin and Soft‐Tissue Infections Caused by Rapid‐Growing Mycobacteria in Tsunami Survivors
- 15 July 2008
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 47 (2), e11-e16
- https://doi.org/10.1086/589300
Abstract
Background. In the tsunami catastrophe in Thailand in 2004, several thousand Swedish tourists were injured, with contaminated crush trauma of the legs being the main cause of injury among the survivors.Keywords
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