We report a post-facelift infection due to Mycobacterium chelonae. An environmental strain recovered from the water supply network of the surgical clinic and the clinical strains were considered non-differentiable using whole genome sequencing. After the unhealed wound's exposure to M. chelonae while showering early at the clinic after surgery, a lasting exposure of the colonized wound to the warm and moist working conditions of a bakery may have been favorable to the infection's development.
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Decalonne, M., Lecorche, E., Hau, E., Petiteau, A., Moreau, C., Milan, O., … van der Mee-Marquet, N. (2019). Cause Analysis of an Infection in Facelift Surgery Due to Mycobacterium chelonae. Frontiers in Medicine, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2019.00243
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