| Autor: |
Moutsoglou DM; Department of Medicine, Hospital Medicine Group, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA., Merritt F; Department of Medicine, Hospital Medicine Group, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA., Cumbler E; Department of Medicine, Hospital Medicine Group, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA. |
| Abstrakt: |
Mycobacterium chimaera , a member of the Mycobacterium avium complex, is a slow-growing, nontuberculous mycobacterium associated with outbreaks in cardiac-surgery patients supported on heart-lung machines. We report a case of an elderly woman on chronic prednisone who presented with a six-month history of worsening chronic back pain, recurrent low-grade fevers, and weight loss. Imaging identified multilevel vertebral osteomyelitis and lumbar soft-tissue abscess. Abscess culture identified M. chimaera . |
