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-positive bacilli are associated with infections in patients with these catheters.
D000328:Adult; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D009164:Mycobacterium Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014388:Tuberculosis, Lymph Node / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology