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First Report of Mycobacterium canariasense Catheter-Related Bacteremia in the Americas

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 6, Pages 2265-2269

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AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03103-13

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Mycobacterium canariasense is a recently described late-pigmenting, rapidly growing mycobacterium linked to bacteremia in patients with underlying malignant diseases. We report a case of M. canariasense infection in a patient from Massachusetts with underlying diffuse B cell lymphoma, which was identified both by multilocus sequence typing and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). To our knowledge, this is the first description after its original identification in Spain and the first report of this opportunistic pathogen in the Americas.

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