AUTHOR=Decalonne Marie , Lecorche Emmanuel , Hau Estelle , Petiteau Agnès , Moreau Célia , Milan Odile , Lanotte Philipe , Mereghetti Laurent , Cambau Emmanuelle , van der Mee-Marquet Nathalie 

TITLE=Cause Analysis of an Infection in Facelift Surgery Due to Mycobacterium chelonae

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Medicine

VOLUME=6

YEAR=2019

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2019.00243

DOI=10.3389/fmed.2019.00243

ISSN=2296-858X

ABSTRACT=<p>We report a post-facelift infection due to <italic>Mycobacterium chelonae</italic>. 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 <italic>M. chelonae</italic> 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.</p>