Pulmonary infection caused by Mycobacterium marinum in a patient with anorexia nervosa

Kengo Oshima; Yukari Niinuma; Hajime Saito; Hiroaki Baba; Hajime Kanamori; Tetsuji Aoyagi; Koichi Tokuda; Mitsuo Kaku

doi:10.1183/23120541.00782-2020

Pulmonary infection caused by Mycobacterium marinum in a patient with anorexia nervosa

ERJ Open Res. 2021 Mar 15;7(1):00782-2020. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00782-2020. eCollection 2021 Jan.

Authors

Kengo Oshima^{1

2}, Yukari Niinuma³, Hajime Saito⁴, Hiroaki Baba^{1

2}, Hajime Kanamori^{1

2

5}, Tetsuji Aoyagi^{1

2}, Koichi Tokuda^{2

5}, Mitsuo Kaku⁶

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
² Dept of Intelligent Network for Infection Control, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
³ Ohmichi Internal Medicine and Respiratory Clinic, Sapporo, Japan.
⁴ Hiroshima Environment & Health Association, Health Science Center, Hiroshima, Japan.
⁵ Division of Infection Control, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Japan.
⁶ Dept of Infectious Disease, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Japan.

Abstract

Mycobacterium marinum can cause pulmonary infection and can grow at ≤32°C. Physicians should consider M. marinum when examining patients with pulmonary infection and low body temperature or anorexia nervosa, and grow the specimen at ≤32°C. https://bit.ly/3jkzBeq.