Primary tuberculous chancre caused by Mycobacterium bovis after goring with a bull's horn

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2000 Sep;43(3):535-7. doi: 10.1067/mjd.2000.108019.

Abstract

A 14-year-old boy was gored by a bull during festival celebrations. The horn of the bull caused a wound on his left hand and after 3 months it was a accompanied by an ulcerated nodule on the left upper arm and an axillary adenopathy. The tuberculin test was positive and a culture of the aspiration biopsy specimen of the axillary lymph node yielded Mycombacterium bovis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Hand Injuries / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Mycobacterium bovis* / isolation & purification
  • Tuberculosis, Cutaneous / etiology*
  • Tuberculosis, Cutaneous / microbiology
  • Wounds, Penetrating / complications*
  • Wounds, Penetrating / microbiology