Endophthalmitis caused by Mycobacterium houstonense: case report

BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium houstonense is rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) that belongs to M. fortuitum group. So far, there have been few associated reports of human diseases induced by M. houstonense worldwide. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a delayed-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by...

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Autores principales: Che, Xin, Li, Qingjian, Wang, Luoziyi, Jiang, Jing, Shen, Xuzhong, Qian, Yiwen, Wang, Zhiliang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7668021/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33198648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05590-7
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author Che, Xin
Li, Qingjian
Wang, Luoziyi
Jiang, Jing
Shen, Xuzhong
Qian, Yiwen
Wang, Zhiliang
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Wang, Luoziyi
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description BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium houstonense is rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) that belongs to M. fortuitum group. So far, there have been few associated reports of human diseases induced by M. houstonense worldwide. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a delayed-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by M. houstonense after glaucoma drainage implant (GDI) surgery. The ocular infection lasted for 2 months without appropriate treatment that developed into endophthalmitis and the patient underwent an emergency enucleation. CONCLUSION: Implant erosion and a delay in diagnosis of ocular infection could lead to irreversible damage as observed in our case. Ophthalmologists should be alert for ocular RGM infection, and prompt laboratory diagnosis with initiation of effective multidrug therapy might prevent loss of vision.
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spelling pubmed-76680212020-11-16 Endophthalmitis caused by Mycobacterium houstonense: case report Che, Xin Li, Qingjian Wang, Luoziyi Jiang, Jing Shen, Xuzhong Qian, Yiwen Wang, Zhiliang BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium houstonense is rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) that belongs to M. fortuitum group. So far, there have been few associated reports of human diseases induced by M. houstonense worldwide. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a delayed-onset postoperative endophthalmitis caused by M. houstonense after glaucoma drainage implant (GDI) surgery. The ocular infection lasted for 2 months without appropriate treatment that developed into endophthalmitis and the patient underwent an emergency enucleation. CONCLUSION: Implant erosion and a delay in diagnosis of ocular infection could lead to irreversible damage as observed in our case. Ophthalmologists should be alert for ocular RGM infection, and prompt laboratory diagnosis with initiation of effective multidrug therapy might prevent loss of vision. BioMed Central 2020-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7668021/ /pubmed/33198648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05590-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7668021/
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