Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Presenting as Vertebral Osteomyelitis

Autor:	Daphne M. Moutsoglou, Frank Merritt, Ethan Cumbler
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216
Zdroj:	Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, Vol 2017 (2017)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2090-6625 2090-6633
DOI:	10.1155/2017/9893743
Popis:	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.
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