Revista de terapia y enfermedades infecciosas

Abstracto

Surgical Site Infection due To Mycobacterium mageritense and Literature Review

Yoshihiko Ogawa, Soichiro Ito, Ryuichi Nakano, Kei Kasahara, Masamitsu Kuwahara, Hisakazu Yano, and Keiichi Mikasa

Surgical site infection due to Mycobacterium mageritense is reported in an 85-year-old Japanese woman. In this patient, a mesh patch was inserted to close a ventral hernia and surgical site infection occurred 7 days postoperatively. The isolate was confirmed to be Mycobacterium mageritense by analysis of the 16S rRNA and rpoB genes. The infection was successfully treated with negative pressure wound therapy and long-term antibiotics without removal of the mesh patch.