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Prosthetic valve endocarditis and bloodstream infection due to Mycobacterium chimaera. 2013
Yvonne Achermann, and
Matthias Rössle, and
Matthias Hoffmann, and
Vanessa Deggim, and
Stefan Kuster, and
Dieter R Zimmermann, and
Guido Bloemberg, and
Michael Hombach, and
Barbara Hasse
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) due to fast-growing nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has been reported anecdotally. Reports of PVE with slowly growing NTM, however, are lacking. We present here one case of PVE and one case of bloodstream infection caused by Mycobacterium chimaera. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)-PCR indicated a relatedness of the two M. chimaera strains. Both patients had heart surgery 2 years apart from each other. A nosocomial link was not detected.
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