Pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium massiliense
Mitra, S.; Tapadar, S.R.; Banerjee, D.; Bhattacharjee, S.; Dey, S.; Kundu, S.
Indian Journal of Chest Diseases and Allied Sciences 54(1): 53-57
2012
ISSN/ISBN: 0377-9343 PMID: 22779125 Document Number: 663035
We report a case of a patient suffering from multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis (MDR-PTB) who later developed an invasive infection of the respiratory tract with a rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), recently identified as Mycobacterium massiliense, closely related to M. abscessus. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of M. massiliense infection being reported from India.