A cluster of four cases of Mycobacterium haemophilum infection Journal Article
| Authors: | Kiehn, T. E.; White, M.; Pursell, K. J.; Boone, N.; Tsivitis, M.; Brown, A. E.; Polsky, B.; Armstrong, D. |
| Article Title: | A cluster of four cases of Mycobacterium haemophilum infection |
| Abstract: | Four cases of infection with Mycobacterium haemophilum occurred at a single hospital in a seven-month period. Only 22 cases have been reported since 1976. All four patients were immunocompromised; two had AIDS and two were the first known recipients of allogeneic bone marrow transplants (BMT) to develop the infection. One BMT recipient died of Mycobacterium haemophilum pneumonia. The organism requires hemin or ferric ammonium citrate and incubation of media at 30 °C for optimum growth. Clinicians and microbiologists should consider infection with Mycobacterium haemophilum, particularly when specimens are from immuno-compromised patients with unexplained illness and/or when acid-fast bacilli are seen on smear. © 1993 Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. |
| Keywords: | adult; case report; united states; cluster analysis; drug therapy, combination; ciprofloxacin; acquired immune deficiency syndrome; immunocompromised host; doxycycline; bone marrow transplantation; mycobacterium; rifampicin; pentamidine; mycobacteriosis; intravenous drug administration; oral drug administration; intramuscular drug administration; streptomycin; antitubercular agents; aids-related opportunistic infections; amikacin; ethambutol; isoniazid; pyrazinamide; human; male; female; priority journal; article; mycobacteria, atypical; mycobacterium infections, atypical |
| Journal Title: | European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| ISSN: | 0934-9723 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Date Published: | 1993-02-01 |
| Start Page: | 114 |
| End Page: | 118 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf01967586 |
| PUBMED: | 8500478 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | Source: Scopus |
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