First case of Mycobacterium heckeshornense cavitary lung disease in the Latin America and Caribbean region

C Coitinho; G Greif; J van Ingen; P Laserra; C Robello; C Rivas

doi:10.1016/j.nmni.2015.12.003

First case of Mycobacterium heckeshornense cavitary lung disease in the Latin America and Caribbean region

New Microbes New Infect. 2015 Dec 18:9:63-5. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.12.003. eCollection 2016 Jan.

Authors

C Coitinho¹, G Greif², J van Ingen³, P Laserra¹, C Robello⁴, C Rivas¹

Affiliations

¹ Comisión Honoraria de Lucha Anti-Tuberculosa y Enfermedades Prevalentes (CHLA-EP), Montevideo, Uruguay.
² Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
³ Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁴ Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay; Departamento de Bioquímica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Abstract

A case of cavitary pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacterium heckeshornense in Uruguay is described. This is the first case reported in the Latin America and Caribbean region, showing that this species is a worldwide opportunistic human pathogen.

Keywords: Epidemiology; Mycobacterium heckeshornense; infection; mycobacterium; pulmonary.

Publication types

Case Reports