Native-valve endocarditis caused by Mycobacterium chelonae, misidentified as polymicrobial gram-positive bacillus infection.
Mycobacterium chelonae, a species of rapidly growing mycobacteria, may grow in routine blood culture media and stain as gram-positive bacilli, which may cause diagnostic confusion. A patient with native-valve endocarditis caused by M. chelonae, which was misidentified as various gram-positive bacilli, is presented.
Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Section, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, M/C719, 840 S. Wood St., Chicago, IL 60612-7323, USA. dtt520360@gmail.com
Daisuke
D
Takekoshi
Omar
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Al-Heeti
Patrick
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Belvitch
Dean E
DE
Schraufnagel
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001407:Bacillus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D016926:Mycobacterium chelonae / Q000302:isolation & purification*
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents