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Mycobacterium marinum lives in aquatic environments. It was isolated in 1926 by Aronson from tubercles in various organs of marine fish found dead in the Philadelphia Aquarium [1]. This organism was identified as a causal agent of human disease only in 1951, when it was isolated from skin lesions in swimmers in a contaminated swimming pool in the city of Orebro, Sweden [2]. The term “swimming pool granuloma” was coined to denote these lesions and the causal agent was classified as Mycobacterium balnei [3], and then, when the two mycobacteria were later seen to be identical, as Mycobacterium marinum (Fig. 11.1).
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Angelini, G., Bonamonte, D. (2002). Dermatitis caused by aquatic bacteria. In: Aquatic Dermatology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2095-5_11
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