title: Pulmonary infection due to Mycobacterium gordonae in an adolescent immunocompetent patient.
abstract: We report the case of 17-year-old male adolescent immunocompetent patient with an operated transposition of the great arteries after the Mustard technique admitted to our hospital because of a cough and hemoptysis. Two nodules and an area of ground glass appearance located in the lower lobe of the left lung were diagnosed by ultrafast computed tomography (UF-CT) after ruling out cardiovascular complications. The gastric aspirate revealed acid-fast bacilli despite a repeatedly negative tuberculin skin test identified as Mycobacterium gordonae by the Gen-Probe Rapid Diagnostic Test. After an initial standard antimycobacterial therapy with isoniazid, rifampin and pyrazinamide the therapy was changed to clarithromycin and after a treatment course of 14 days, the UF-CT revealed a normal scan of both lungs. The case described suggests that one has to consider M. gordonae as a rare cause of infection even in immunocompetent patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Resch
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Eber
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beitzke
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zach
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D008297:Male; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology*