Mycobacterium fortuitum infection of a Hickman catheter site

A patient with histiocytic lymphoma who developed a Hickman catheter exist site infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum is described. Due to the risk of dissemination in immunosuppressed patients and the resistance to antibiotic therapy, rapid-growing mycobacteria should be considered when gram-pos...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of clinical pathology 1983-11, Vol.80 (5), p.733-735
Hauptverfasser:	SVIRBELY, J. R, BUESCHING, W. J, AYERS, L. W, BAKER, P. B, BRITTON, A. J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy Biological and medical sciences Cardiac Catheterization - adverse effects Catheters, Indwelling - adverse effects Emergency and intensive care: techniques, logistics Humans Intensive care medicine Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse - complications Male Medical sciences Mycobacterium fortuitum Mycobacterium Infections - etiology Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - etiology Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - pathology Perfusions. Catheterizations. Hyperbaric oxygenotherapy Tuberculosis, Lymph Node - etiology Tuberculosis, Lymph Node - microbiology Tuberculosis, Lymph Node - pathology
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Zusammenfassung:	A patient with histiocytic lymphoma who developed a Hickman catheter exist site infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum is described. Due to the risk of dissemination in immunosuppressed patients and the resistance to antibiotic therapy, rapid-growing mycobacteria should be considered when gram-positive bacilli are associated with infections in patients with these catheters.
ISSN:	0002-9173 1943-7722
DOI:	10.1093/ajcp/80.5.733