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Open Forum Infect Dis
; 3(3): ofw146, 2016 Sep.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27704004
RESUMO
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.