<i>Mycobacterium fortuitum</i> pacemaker infection: A case report
Yahya Shabi, David Haldane, Paul Bonnar
Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada · 2021-10
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rapidly growing mycobacterium, ubiquitous in soil and water, but it is an uncommon cause of infections in immunocompetent hosts. Cardiac device infections and bloodstream infections due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria are rare. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of an 85-year-old patient with infective endocarditis and pacemaker lead infection secondary to M. fortuitum.
MeSH terms
- Mycobacterium fortuitum
- Microbiology
- Mycobacterium Infections
- Medicine
- Virology
- Mycobacterium