Miliary Tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis associated with invasive aspergillosis in a renal transplant recipient
Andrade Sierra Jorge, Mauricio Carvallo-Venegas, Antonio de Jesús Andrade-Ortega, A Federico-Rivera Jorge, Cerrillos-Gutiérrez José Ignacio, Aguilar-Fletes Laura Elizabeth, Benitez Cristian Alejandro, Carrasco-Carrizosa Aldo
BMC Nephrology · 2025-05
Abstract
Infections in renal transplant recipients (RTRs) carry great risk of morbidity-mortality, and the risk of graft loss. Concomitant infections, although common in immunosuppressed patients, should be highly suspected. The present case involves a RTR with opportunistic pulmonary co-infections caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb), Mycobacterium smegmatis (MSm), and Aspergillus spp. While MSm can be a colonizing microorganism, we demonstrate that it can also be pathogenic.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis
- Mycobacterium smegmatis
- Renal transplant
- Aspergillosis
- Miliary tuberculosis
- Nephrology
- Mycobacterium
- Microbiology
- Internal medicine
- Immunology
- Virology