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Disseminated Mycobacterium abscessus Infection Following Septic Arthritis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Post-mortem diagnosis of septic arthritis by Pasteurella multocida: a case report and literature review of fatal septic arthritis.Forensic science, medicine, and pathology · 2025Pooled it
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- Pathogenicity and virulence ofVirulence · 2025Review
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- Case Report:Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Disseminated Mycobacterium abscessus infection with idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia: a case report and review of the literature.Journal of medical case reports · 2024Review
- Clofazimine as a comparator for preclinical efficacy evaluations of experimental therapeutics against pulmonary M. abscessus infection in mice.Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2022Article
- First report of disseminatedIJID regions · 2022Article
- Bursitis, Bacteremia, and Disseminated Infection of Mycobacteroides (Mycobacterium) abscessus subsp. massiliense.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2021Article
- An 80-Year-Old Man With Fevers, Altered Mental Status, and Joint Effusions.Arthritis care & research · 2020Article
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- Molecular Mechanisms of Intrinsic Streptomycin Resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2018Article
- DisseminatedJournal of general and family medicine · 2017Article
- Intractable Cutaneous Nontuberculous Mycobacteriosis (Mycobacterium abscessus) during Treatment for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2017Article
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Abstract
Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing mycobacterium found mainly in patients with respiratory or cutaneous infections, but it rarely causes disseminated infections. Little is known about the clinical characteristics, treatment, and prognosis of disseminated M abscessus infection. A 75-year-old Japanese woman who had been treated for 17 years with a corticosteroid for antisynthetase syndrome with antithreonyl-tRNA synthetase antibody developed swelling of her right elbow. X-ray of her right elbow joint showed osteolysis, and magnetic resonance imaging revealed fluid in her right elbow joint. M abscessus grew in joint fluid and blood cultures. She was diagnosed with a disseminated M abscessus infection following septic arthritis. Antimicrobial treatment by clarithromycin, amikacin, and imipenem/cilastatin combined with surgical debridement was administered. Although blood and joint fluid cultures became negative 1 week later, the patient died at 6 weeks from starting antimicrobial treatment. We reviewed 34 cases of disseminated M abscessus infections from the literature. Most of the patients had immunosuppressive backgrounds such as transplantation, use of immunosuppressive agents, hematological malignancy, and end stage renal disease. The duration from onset of symptoms to diagnosis was over 3 months in half of the cases. All fatal cases had positive blood cultures or use of immunosuppressive agents. Clinicians should bear in mind that mycobacterial infections including M abscessus are one of the differential diagnoses in patients with subacute arthritis and soft tissue infections.
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