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First report of tenosynovitis in an immunocompetent person caused by Mycobacterium heraklionense

Malak Abedalthagafi, Oren Rosenberg, Steve Miller

  • 1Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 2Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
  • 3Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Steve Miller steve.miller{at}ucsfmedctr.org

    • JMM Case Reports 2014; 1(2):e002071 · https://doi.org/10.1099/jmmcr.0.002071

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    Abstract

    Introduction: Mycobacterium heraklionense is a newly described species member of the Mycobacterium terrae complex.

    Case presentation: We have described a case of chronic tenosynovitis caused by M. heraklionense using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The infection was associated with trauma and foreign‐body introduction in an otherwise healthy patient.

    Conclusion: M. heraklionense appears to have worldwide distribution and has the ability to cause disease similar to other members of the M. terrae complex.

    • ethambutol
    • granuloma
    • mycobacteria
    • tenosynovitis

    • Abbreviations

      AFB
      acid‐fast bacillus
      GMS
      Grocott’s methenamine silver
      MTC
      Mycobacterium terrae complex.

    This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).