RESUMO
We report a case of a patient suffering from multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (MDR-PTB) who later developed an invasive infection of the respiratory tract with a rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), recently identified as Mycobacterium massiliense, closely related to M. abscessus. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of M. massiliense infection being reported from India.
Assuntos
Resistência Microbiana a Medicamentos , Infecções por Mycobacterium não Tuberculosas/microbiologia , Mycobacterium tuberculosis/efeitos dos fármacos , Micobactérias não Tuberculosas/isolamento & purificação , Tuberculose Pulmonar/microbiologia , Antituberculosos/farmacologia , Antituberculosos/uso terapêutico , Feminino , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Infecções por Mycobacterium não Tuberculosas/tratamento farmacológico , Micobactérias não Tuberculosas/efeitos dos fármacos , Escarro/microbiologia , Tuberculose Resistente a Múltiplos Medicamentos/microbiologia , Tuberculose Pulmonar/tratamento farmacológicoRESUMO
We report a case of a patient suffering from multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (MDR-PTB) who later developed an invasive infection of the respiratory tract with a rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), recently identified as Mycobacterium massiliense, closely related to M. abscessus. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of M. massiliense infection being reported from India.