TY - JOUR
T1 - Catheter-related bloodstream infection caused by Mycobacterium brumae
AU - Lee, Stephanie A.
AU - Raad, Issam I.
AU - Adachi, Javier A.
AU - Han, Xiang Y.
PY - 2004/11
Y1 - 2004/11
N2 - Mycobacterium brumae is a rapidly growing environmental mycobacterial species identified in 1993; so far, no infections by this organism have been reported. Here we present a catheter-related M. brumae bloodstream infection in a 54-year-old woman with breast cancer. The patient presented with high fever (39.7°C), and > 1,000 colonies of M. brumae grew from a quantitative culture of blood drawn through the catheter. A paired peripheral blood culture was negative, however, suggesting circulational control of the infection. The patient was treated empirically with meropenem and vancomycin, and the fever resolved within 24 h. The catheter was removed a week later, and from the tip M. brumae was isolated a second time, suggesting catheter colonization. The organism was identified by colonial morphology, sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene, and biochemical tests.
AB - Mycobacterium brumae is a rapidly growing environmental mycobacterial species identified in 1993; so far, no infections by this organism have been reported. Here we present a catheter-related M. brumae bloodstream infection in a 54-year-old woman with breast cancer. The patient presented with high fever (39.7°C), and > 1,000 colonies of M. brumae grew from a quantitative culture of blood drawn through the catheter. A paired peripheral blood culture was negative, however, suggesting circulational control of the infection. The patient was treated empirically with meropenem and vancomycin, and the fever resolved within 24 h. The catheter was removed a week later, and from the tip M. brumae was isolated a second time, suggesting catheter colonization. The organism was identified by colonial morphology, sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene, and biochemical tests.
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U2 - 10.1128/JCM.42.11.5429-5431.2004
DO - 10.1128/JCM.42.11.5429-5431.2004
M3 - Article
C2 - 15528764
AN - SCOPUS:8644230859
SN - 0095-1137
VL - 42
SP - 5429
EP - 5431
JO - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
JF - Journal of Clinical Microbiology
IS - 11
ER -