First report of Mycobacterium canariasense catheter-related bacteremia in the Americas.

ABSTRACT: Mycobacterium canariasense is a recently described late-pigmenting, rapidly growing mycobacterium linked to bacteremia in patients with underlying malignant diseases. We report a case of M. canariasense infection in a patient from Massachusetts with underlying diffuse B cell lymphoma, which was identified both by multilocus sequence typing and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). To our knowledge, this is the first description after its original identification in Spain and the first report of this opportunistic pathogen in the Americas.

SUBMITTER: Paniz-Mondolfi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4042744 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature