JBJI Journal of Bone and Joint Infection JBJI J. Bone Joint Infect. 2206-3552 Ivyspring Göttingen, Germany 10.7150/jbji.36286 Mycobacterium abscessus Prosthetic Joint Infections of the Knee Nengue Lydie 1 A. Mark Anthony 1 Sherman Courtney E. 2 Bhasin Arveen 3 Libertin Claudia R. 1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA Division of Allergy, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA 25 09 2019 4 5 223 226 Copyright: © 2019 Lydie Nengue et al. 2019 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is available from https://jbji.copernicus.org/articles/4/223/2019/jbji-4-223-2019.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://jbji.copernicus.org/articles/4/223/2019/jbji-4-223-2019.pdf

<p class="p p-first-last" id="__p2"><em>M. abscessus</em> complex prosthetic joint infections (PJI) of the knee are rare. We present a patient with <em>an M. abscessus subsp. massiliense</em>, 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.</p>

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