Articles | Volume 4, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.35703
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.Mycobacterium Avium Prosthetic Hip Infection on Abatacept Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin
Keywords: MAC, joint infection, immunosuppression, prosthetic joint
Abstract. Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are well-described pulmonary pathogens in patients with underlying lung disease. Extra-pulmonary infections with NTM are rare. We describe a prosthetic hip infection with Mycobacterium avium complex. Increased immunosuppressing medications and number of total joint replacements are expected to increase the prevalence of NTM infections in the future.