Peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis caused by Mycobacteroides massiliense: the first case and review of the literature.

Background: Peritoneal dialysis (PD)-associated peritonitis caused by nontuberculous Mycobacterium is rare; however, the number of cases has increased over the past decades. Mycobacteroides massiliense is a subspecies of the Mycobacteroides abscessus complex. It has different clinical characteristics compared to the other subspecies of the complex.