A Novel Rapidly Growing Mycobacterium Species Causing an Abdominal Cerebrospinal Fluid Pseudocyst Infection

Cory K Hussain; Tom J B de Man; Nadege C Toney; Kamal Kamboj; Joan-Miquel Balada-Llasat; Shu-Hua Wang

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofw146

A Novel Rapidly Growing Mycobacterium Species Causing an Abdominal Cerebrospinal Fluid Pseudocyst Infection

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016 Jul 13;3(3):ofw146. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofw146. eCollection 2016 Sep.

Authors

Cory K Hussain¹, Tom J B de Man², Nadege C Toney², Kamal Kamboj³, Joan-Miquel Balada-Llasat³, Shu-Hua Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases.
² Clinical and Environmental Microbiology Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Atlanta, Georgia.
³ Department of Pathology , The Ohio State University , Columbus.

Abstract

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are a rare cause of ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections. We describe the isolation and identification of a novel, rapidly growing, nonpigmented NTM from an abdominal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst. The patient presented with fevers, nausea, and abdominal pain and clinically improved after shunt removal. NTM identification was performed by amplicon and whole-genome sequencing.

Keywords: Mycobacterium; abdominal; cerebrospinal; pseudocyst; ventriculoperitoneal.