Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Presenting as Vertebral Osteomyelitis

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 histo...

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Autores principales: Moutsoglou, Daphne M., Merritt, Frank, Cumbler, Ethan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5420920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28523197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9893743
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description 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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spelling pubmed-54209202017-05-18 Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Presenting as Vertebral Osteomyelitis Moutsoglou, Daphne M. Merritt, Frank Cumbler, Ethan Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report 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. Hindawi 2017 2017-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5420920/ /pubmed/28523197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9893743 Text en Copyright © 2017 Daphne M. Moutsoglou et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Presenting as Vertebral Osteomyelitis
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title_full Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Presenting as Vertebral Osteomyelitis
title_fullStr Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Presenting as Vertebral Osteomyelitis
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Presenting as Vertebral Osteomyelitis
title_short Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Presenting as Vertebral Osteomyelitis
title_sort disseminated mycobacterium chimaera presenting as vertebral osteomyelitis
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