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IDCases
August 2024
University of California Los Angeles, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Background: is an emerging rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) species that has been rarely reported to cause human disease. RGM catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) are often challenging to treat given the need for line removal, variable species-dependent antimicrobial susceptibility, combination antimicrobial treatment, and historically longer courses of antibiotics.
Case Presentation: We present a case of an immunocompetent pediatric patient with severe hemophilia B and CRBSI.
J Clin Tuberc Other Mycobact Dis
December 2023
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Faculty of Health Sciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
We present the case of an immunocompromised child with infection. Our case highlights the difficulty in adequate speciation. Most isolates described in the literature were identified using 16 s- PCR, which if performed on our sample would at best be inconclusive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPulmonary infection due to was reported in only two patients previously. More studies are warranted to define its characteristics and treatments. We report a systemic sclerosis patient who had a pulmonary infection due to and then successfully recovered after treatment with combination antibiotic regimen.
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August 2022
Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Oman.
Mycobacterium canariasense is a relatively newly discovered, rapidly growing nontuberculous Mycobacterium first described in 17 patients with fever in the Canary Islands, Spain, in 2004. To date, there have been very few case reports in literature, and to our knowledge, infective endocarditis due to M. canariasense has not been reported.
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March 2021
Department of Medicine, King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
A 69-year-old man renal transplant recipient for 4 years, presented with 4-day history of cough and dyspnoea. He was diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia and treated accordingly. He deteriorated requiring intensive care unit admission and intubation.
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