Disseminated Mycobacterium terrae Infection in a Patient with Advanced Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease

Carbonara, Sergio; Tortoli, Enrico; Costa, Danila; Monno, Laura; Fiorentino, Giuseppe; Grimaldi, Anna; Boscia, D.; Rollo, Marco Arturo; Pastore, Giuseppe; Angarano, Gioacchino

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“…Indeed, some reports showed potential human pathogenicity (Krisher et al, 1988;Mayo et al, 1998;Smith et al, 2000). Disseminated M. terrae infections have also been reported among AIDS patients (Carbonara et al, 2000). M. senuense was recently described as a novel Mycobacterium species closely related to the M. terrae complex (Mun et al, 2008).…”

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Mycobacterium algericum sp. nov., a novel rapidly growing species related to the Mycobacterium terrae complex and associated with goat lung lesions

Sahraoui

Ballif

Zelleg

et al. 2011

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

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Mycobacterium algericum sp. nov., a novel rapidly growing species related to the Mycobacterium terrae complex and associated with goat lung lesions

Sahraoui

Ballif

Zelleg

et al. 2011

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

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“…Environmental mycobacteria are an emerging problem as causative agents of diseases, especially among immunocompromised hosts. Many mycobacterial species previously regarded as non-pathogenic to man are today classified as inducers of mycobacterioses, this occurring predominantly in AIDS patients (Carbonara et al , 2000; Luque et al , 1998; Mayo et al , 1998). The precise identification of species is of great importance for appropriate patient management.…”

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Gas-chromatographic lipid profiles in identification of currently known slowly growing environmental mycobacteria

Torkko

Katila

Kontro

2003

Journal of Medical Microbiology

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Cellular fatty acid analysis by GLC is widely used in the species identification of mycobacteria. Combining mycolic acid cleavage products with shorter cellular fatty acids increases the informative value of the analysis. A key has been created to aid in the identification of all currently known slowly growing environmental species. In this scheme, the species are classified into six categories, each characterized by a combination of fatty markers shared by those species. Within each category, individual species may be distinguished by the presence or absence of specific marker substances, such as methyl-branched fatty acids or secondary alcohols. This study also describes earlier unpublished GLC profiles of 14 rare, slowly growing, environmental mycobacteria, Mycobacterium asiaticum, Mycobacterium botniense, Mycobacterium branderi, Mycobacterium conspicuum, Mycobacterium cookii, Mycobacterium doricum, Mycobacterium heckeshornense, Mycobacterium heidelbergense, Mycobacterium hiberniae, Mycobacterium kubicae, Mycobacterium lentiflavum, Mycobacterium scrofulaceum, Mycobacterium triplex and Mycobacterium tusciae. Though no single identification technique alone, even sequencing of an entire single gene such as 16S rRNA, can identify all mycobacterial species accurately, GLC has proven to be both reliable and reproducible in the identification of slowly growing mycobacteria. In cases of earlier unknown species, it generates useful information that allows their further classification and may lead to the description of novel species.

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“…Of the 17 patients, 12 (71%) had an underlying chronic medical condition [7-15]. Of these, two patients (11%) were immunosuppressed: one with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and the other with active malignancy receiving bone marrow transplant treatments [11,13]. There were nine patients with predisposing lung conditions including history of tuberculosis infection (four), chronic smoking (four), and cystic fibrosis with bronchiectasis (one) [7,9,12,14,15].…”

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Pulmonary Infection Caused by Mycobacterium terrae: A Case Report and Literature Review

Duran¹,

Araiza²,

Surani

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Cureus

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Mycobacterium terrae infection can cause progressive debilitating disease. A case of a 63-year-old man with localized pulmonary infection characterized by extensive, thick-walled cavitary lesions is presented. A pneumonectomy was considered as definitive treatment, but the patient would not have tolerated the procedure given his severe deconditioning. Instead, he was placed on lifelong antibiotic treatment, but he continued to deteriorate and passed away. The slow-growing microorganism, Mycobacterium terrae, was isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage cultures seven weeks after specimen collection, five and a half weeks after the patient’s death. Clinical, microbiological and therapeutic data from this case and 16 other pulmonary cases from the literature are reviewed. Increased awareness of this microorganism will allow clinicians to consider Mycobacterium terrae in their differential diagnosis when dealing with nontuberculous mycobacteria infections.

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Disseminated Mycobacterium terrae Infection in a Patient with Advanced Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease

Cited by 21 publications

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Mycobacterium algericum sp. nov., a novel rapidly growing species related to the Mycobacterium terrae complex and associated with goat lung lesions

Mycobacterium algericum sp. nov., a novel rapidly growing species related to the Mycobacterium terrae complex and associated with goat lung lesions

Gas-chromatographic lipid profiles in identification of currently known slowly growing environmental mycobacteria

Pulmonary Infection Caused by Mycobacterium terrae: A Case Report and Literature Review

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