A Patient With Mycobacteremia Due to Two Different Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

Eddie Hill; Darcy Wooten

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofac519

A Patient With Mycobacteremia Due to Two Different Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Oct 31;9(10):ofac519. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac519. eCollection 2022 Oct.

Authors

Eddie Hill¹, Darcy Wooten¹

Affiliation

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.

Abstract

Disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial infections are most common in patients with severe immunosuppression, such as people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and low CD4⁺ T-cell counts. In this report, we present a rare case of a person with HIV who was hospitalized for mycobacteremia due to 2 different nontuberculous mycobacteria. We also provide a comprehensive summary of published case reports describing nontuberculous mycobacterial coinfections.

Keywords: Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare; Mycobacterium kansasii; nontuberculous mycobacteremia.

Publication types

Case Reports