First report of Mycobacterium canariasense catheter-related bacteremia in the Americas

Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi; Lynn Ladutko; Barbara A Brown-Elliott; Ravikiran Vasireddy; Sruthi Vasireddy; Richard J Wallace Jr; Wesley Jakubiec; Stephen Brecher; Sheldon Campbell

doi:10.1128/JCM.03103-13

First report of Mycobacterium canariasense catheter-related bacteremia in the Americas

J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Jun;52(6):2265-9. doi: 10.1128/JCM.03103-13. Epub 2014 Apr 16.

Authors

Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi¹, Lynn Ladutko², Barbara A Brown-Elliott³, Ravikiran Vasireddy³, Sruthi Vasireddy³, Richard J Wallace Jr³, Wesley Jakubiec², Stephen Brecher⁴, Sheldon Campbell⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine/Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA [email protected].
² VA Connecticut Healthcare, West Haven, Connecticut, USA.
³ Department of Microbiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Mycobacteria/Nocardia Laboratory, Tyler, Texas, USA.
⁴ VA Boston Healthcare, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine/Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA VA Connecticut Healthcare, West Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Bacteremia / diagnosis*
Bacteremia / microbiology
Bacteremia / pathology
Catheter-Related Infections / diagnosis*
Catheter-Related Infections / microbiology
Catheter-Related Infections / pathology
Humans
Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / complications
Male
Massachusetts
Molecular Sequence Data
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Mycobacterium / chemistry
Mycobacterium / classification
Mycobacterium / genetics
Mycobacterium / isolation & purification*
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / diagnosis*
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / microbiology
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / pathology
Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization

Associated data

GENBANK/KJ720533
GENBANK/KJ720534
GENBANK/KJ720535