Articles | Volume 4, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.7150/jbji.36286
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Case report
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25 Sep 2019
Case report |
| 25 Sep 2019
| 25 Sep 2019
Mycobacterium abscessus Prosthetic Joint Infections of the Knee
Keywords: Mycobacterium abscessus, Prosthetic Joint Infections, Knee Arthroplasty, Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria, Non-tuberculous mycobacterium.
Abstract. M. abscessus complex prosthetic joint infections (PJI) of the knee are rare. We present a patient with an M. abscessus subsp. massiliense, a nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM), peri-prosthetic knee infection who presented with wound drainage followed by sepsis. The published peer-reviewed literature on knee PJIs due to this organism is reviewed to highlight its clinical presentation,symptomatology, microbiology, surgical interventions, antimicrobial regimens, and outcomes.
