title: First report of Mycobacterium canariasense catheter-related bacteremia in the Americas.
abstract: Mycobacterium canariasense is a recently described late-pigmenting, rapidly growing mycobacterium linked to bacteremia in patients with underlying malignant diseases. We report a case of M. canariasense infection in a patient from Massachusetts with underlying diffuse B cell lymphoma, which was identified both by multilocus sequence typing and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). To our knowledge, this is the first description after its original identification in Spain and the first report of this opportunistic pathogen in the Americas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine/Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA albertopaniz@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Paniz-Mondolfi
authors.affiliation: VA Connecticut Healthcare, West Haven, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ladutko
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Mycobacteria/Nocardia Laboratory, Tyler, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Barbara A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Brown-Elliott
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Mycobacteria/Nocardia Laboratory, Tyler, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Ravikiran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vasireddy
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Mycobacteria/Nocardia Laboratory, Tyler, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Sruthi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vasireddy
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Mycobacteria/Nocardia Laboratory, Tyler, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.affiliation: VA Connecticut Healthcare, West Haven, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: Wesley
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jakubiec
authors.affiliation: VA Boston Healthcare, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brecher
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine/Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA VA Connecticut Healthcare, West Haven, Connecticut, USA.
authors.forename: Sheldon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D055499:Catheter-Related Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D009161:Mycobacterium / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D019032:Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
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