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Daphne M Moutsoglou1, Frank Merritt1, Ethan Cumbler1
1Department of Medicine, Hospital Medicine Group, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Abstract:
Mycobacterium chimaera, a member of the Mycobacterium avium complex, is a slow-growing, nontuberculous mycobacterium associated with outbreaks in cardiac-surgery patients supported on heart-lung machines. We report a case of an elderly woman on chronic prednisone who presented with a six-month history of worsening chronic back pain, recurrent low-grade fevers, and weight loss. Imaging identified multilevel vertebral osteomyelitis and lumbar soft-tissue abscess. Abscess culture identified M. chimaera.
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