%0 Journal Article %T Mastitis por Mycobacterium fortuitum en una paciente HIV negativa %A Palmero %A Domingo J. %A Ambroggi %A Marta G. %A Poggi %A Susana E. %J Medicina (Buenos Aires) %D 2004 %I Fundaci¨Žn Revista Medicina %X a case of a 39 year old hiv negative female patient with a mycobacterium fortuitum mastitis without previous pathogenic history is reported. she was treated on the bases of drug-susceptibility testing and bibliographic empirical evidence with kanamycin, doxicicline, ciprofloxacin and trimetoprim-sulfametoxazol. a complete remission of her lesions was obtained after 15 months of treatment. lesions due to this rapidly growing mycobacterium, diagnosis and treatment are commented. %K mycobacterial disease %K mastitis %K mycobacterium fortuitum. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0025-76802004000600010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en