Pyoderma gangrenosum and Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in a diabetic man: pathogenic role or coincidence?
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Chlamydia Pneumoniae is not a known cause of skin infections, but unusual pathogens cause chronic infections in diabetic patients. Multiple idiopathic pyoderma gangrenosum-like (PG-like) lesions were refractory to multiple therapeutic agents in a diabetic patient who had C pneumoniae identified by serologic tests and polymerase chain reaction. Based on complete resolution by prolonged anti-chlamydial antibiotic therapy and concomitant decrease in serologic and titers determined by polymerase chain reactions, the PG-like lesions were presumed to be due to C pneumoniae.
Medical subject headings
- Chlamydia Infections
- Chlamydophila pneumoniae
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Pyoderma Gangrenosum