著者

Kentaro Iwata Yoshie Takai Nozomi Kitada Naomi Morishita Hiroaki Kiyona

出版者

The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine

雑誌

Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.0595-22, (Released:2022-10-26)

参考文献数

11

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Mycobacterium marinum is a ubiquitous organism inhabiting both fresh and salt water. It can cause human diseases such as skin and soft tissue infection. The organism is also known to cause a false positive reaction to interferon-γ release assay, the test to diagnose latent tuberculosis infection. Here, we present a case of submandibular nodule caused by M. marinum with positive T-SPOT.TB test, which was likely to be false positive.