Prosthetic valve endocarditis and bloodstream infection due to Mycobacterium chimaera
- Achermann, Yvonne
- Rössle, Matthias
- Hoffmann, Matthias
- Deggim, Vanessa
- Kuster, Stefan
- Zimmermann, Dieter R
- Bloemberg, Guido
- Hombach, Michael
- Hasse, Barbara
Publication date
January 2013
DOI Publisher
American Society for Microbiology ISSN
0095-1137 Citation count (estimate)
65Abstract
Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) due to fast-growing nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has been reported anecdotally. Reports of PVE with slowly growing NTM, however, are lacking. We present here one case of PVE and one case of bloodstream infection caused by Mycobacterium chimaera. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-PCR indicated a relatedness of the two M. chimaera strains. Both patients had heart surgery 2 years apart from each other. A nosocomial link was not detected
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