NONTUBERCULOUS TUBERCULOSIS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE - CLINICAL CASE REPORT
Background: Mycobacterium gordonae is a slow growing mycobacterium usually found in soil, tap water, and as laboratory contaminant. It is occasionally implicated in different infections in immunosuppressed patients. In contrast, there have been few case reports of active infection in immunocompetent...
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| author | Gabriela Tsankova Violina Kaludova Tatina Todorova Neli Ermenlieva Emilia Georgieva |
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| description | Background: Mycobacterium gordonae is a slow growing mycobacterium usually found in soil, tap water, and as laboratory contaminant. It is occasionally implicated in different infections in immunosuppressed patients. In contrast, there have been few case reports of active infection in immunocompetent individuals.
Case Description: We report a case of a 46-old immunocompetent patient with long-term cough and poor expectoration. A computed tomography of the chest revealed punctiform lesions and fibrosis formation in the upper right lobe. It did not show any infiltrate in lung parenchyma. Mycobacterium gordonae was definitively diagnosed by genetic method. After antituberculosis treatment the toxic infectious syndrome was overcome.
Conclusion: Mycobacterium gordonae is reported to cause clinically significant nontuberculosis infection in both immunocompetent and immunosuppressed individuals.
Mycobacterium gordonae is hardly diagnosed with traditional laboratory methods, but the latest molecular techniques allow successful isolation and identification of slow growing Mycobacterium gordonae. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bc207983c63947b2a3c3d115b04e693b2022-12-21T21:43:40ZengPeytchinski PublishingJournal of IMAB1312-773X2015-09-0121385685810.5272/jimab.2015213.856NONTUBERCULOUS TUBERCULOSIS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE - CLINICAL CASE REPORTGabriela Tsankova0Violina Kaludova1Tatina Todorova2Neli Ermenlieva3Emilia Georgieva4Department of Preclinical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University Varna, BulgariaDepartment of Preclinical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University Varna, BulgariaDepartment of Preclinical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University Varna, Bulgaria.Department of Preclinical and Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University Varna, Bulgaria.Medical College Varna, Medical University Varna, Bulgaria.Background: Mycobacterium gordonae is a slow growing mycobacterium usually found in soil, tap water, and as laboratory contaminant. It is occasionally implicated in different infections in immunosuppressed patients. In contrast, there have been few case reports of active infection in immunocompetent individuals. Case Description: We report a case of a 46-old immunocompetent patient with long-term cough and poor expectoration. A computed tomography of the chest revealed punctiform lesions and fibrosis formation in the upper right lobe. It did not show any infiltrate in lung parenchyma. Mycobacterium gordonae was definitively diagnosed by genetic method. After antituberculosis treatment the toxic infectious syndrome was overcome. Conclusion: Mycobacterium gordonae is reported to cause clinically significant nontuberculosis infection in both immunocompetent and immunosuppressed individuals. Mycobacterium gordonae is hardly diagnosed with traditional laboratory methods, but the latest molecular techniques allow successful isolation and identification of slow growing Mycobacterium gordonae.http://www.journal-imab-bg.org/issues-2015/issue3/JofIMAB_2015-21-3p856-858.pdfLung diseases Mycobacterium gordonaeNontuberculous mycobacteria |
| spellingShingle | Gabriela Tsankova Violina Kaludova Tatina Todorova Neli Ermenlieva Emilia Georgieva NONTUBERCULOUS TUBERCULOSIS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE - CLINICAL CASE REPORT Journal of IMAB Lung diseases Mycobacterium gordonae Nontuberculous mycobacteria |
| title | NONTUBERCULOUS TUBERCULOSIS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE - CLINICAL CASE REPORT |
| title_full | NONTUBERCULOUS TUBERCULOSIS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE - CLINICAL CASE REPORT |
| title_fullStr | NONTUBERCULOUS TUBERCULOSIS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE - CLINICAL CASE REPORT |
| title_full_unstemmed | NONTUBERCULOUS TUBERCULOSIS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE - CLINICAL CASE REPORT |
| title_short | NONTUBERCULOUS TUBERCULOSIS CAUSED BY MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE - CLINICAL CASE REPORT |
| title_sort | nontuberculous tuberculosis caused by mycobacterium gordonae clinical case report |
| topic | Lung diseases Mycobacterium gordonae Nontuberculous mycobacteria |
| url | http://www.journal-imab-bg.org/issues-2015/issue3/JofIMAB_2015-21-3p856-858.pdf |
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