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Takaaki Hamamoto1, Atsushi Yuki, Kenji Naoi
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Defense Medical College Hospital, Tokorozawa 359-8513, Japan. hamamoto@ndmc.ac.jp
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|July 17, 2012
Abstract:
Bacteremia due to Mycobacterium massiliense is rare. We present here the case of a 58-year-old man with chronic myelogenous leukemia complicated by bacteremia caused by M. massiliense. The microorganisms were identified as M. massiliense by sequencing analysis, having initially been misdiagnosed as M. abscessus by DNA-DNA hybridization.
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