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Open Forum Infect Dis
; 3(3): ofw146, 2016 Sep.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27704004
ABSTRACT
Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are a rare cause of ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections. We describe the isolation and identification of a novel, rapidly growing, nonpigmented NTM from an abdominal cerebrospinal fluid pseudocyst. The patient presented with fevers, nausea, and abdominal pain and clinically improved after shunt removal. NTM identification was performed by amplicon and whole-genome sequencing.