First case of disseminated Mycobacterium bolletii infection in a young adult patient

Won-Jung Koh; O Jung Kwon; Nam Young Lee; Yoon-Hoh Kook; Hyung-Ki Lee; Bum-Joon Kim

doi:10.1128/JCM.00592-09

First case of disseminated Mycobacterium bolletii infection in a young adult patient

J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Oct;47(10):3362-6. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00592-09. Epub 2009 Aug 12.

Authors

Won-Jung Koh¹, O Jung Kwon, Nam Young Lee, Yoon-Hoh Kook, Hyung-Ki Lee, Bum-Joon Kim

Affiliation

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.

Abstract

Mycobacterium bolletii is a rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterium first characterized in 2006. Here, we report a case of disseminated infection caused by M. bolletii in a young adult patient. To our knowledge, this is the first case of disseminated M. bolletii infection in an otherwise healthy young adult.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

DNA, Bacterial / chemistry
DNA, Bacterial / genetics
DNA, Ribosomal / chemistry
DNA, Ribosomal / genetics
Humans
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Mycobacterium / classification*
Mycobacterium / genetics
Mycobacterium / isolation & purification*
Mycobacterium Infections / diagnosis*
Mycobacterium Infections / microbiology
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
Radiography, Thoracic
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Tomography
Young Adult

Substances

DNA, Bacterial
DNA, Ribosomal
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Associated data

GENBANK/FJ607775
GENBANK/FJ607776
GENBANK/FJ607777
GENBANK/FJ607778