Disseminated Infection by Mycobacterium sherrisii and Histoplasma capsulatum in an African HIV-Infected Patient

Juan Taján Hospital de Sabadell and UDIAT Diagnostic Centre, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Sabadell; Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Campus d´Excellència Internacional, Bellaterra, Spain; Microbiology Department-CDB, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona-Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Barcelona, Spain; Pathology, Pharmacology and Microbiology Departments, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain

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Marta Navarro Hospital de Sabadell and UDIAT Diagnostic Centre, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Sabadell; Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Campus d´Excellència Internacional, Bellaterra, Spain; Microbiology Department-CDB, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona-Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Barcelona, Spain; Pathology, Pharmacology and Microbiology Departments, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain

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Bernat Font Hospital de Sabadell and UDIAT Diagnostic Centre, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Sabadell; Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Campus d´Excellència Internacional, Bellaterra, Spain; Microbiology Department-CDB, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona-Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Barcelona, Spain; Pathology, Pharmacology and Microbiology Departments, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain

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Julián González-Martín Hospital de Sabadell and UDIAT Diagnostic Centre, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Sabadell; Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Campus d´Excellència Internacional, Bellaterra, Spain; Microbiology Department-CDB, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona-Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Barcelona, Spain; Pathology, Pharmacology and Microbiology Departments, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain

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Ferran Segura Hospital de Sabadell and UDIAT Diagnostic Centre, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Sabadell; Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Laboratory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Campus d´Excellència Internacional, Bellaterra, Spain; Microbiology Department-CDB, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona-Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), Barcelona, Spain; Pathology, Pharmacology and Microbiology Departments, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain

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Mycobacterium sherrisii is a new species of opportunistic, slow-growing, non-tuberculous Mycobacterium closely related to Mycobacterium simiae that can currently be identified with the sequence of 16S rARN gene and the heat-shock protein 65. Few cases of patients infected by this Mycobacterium have been reported and all of them were associated with human immunodeficiency virus or other immunosuppressive conditions. Clinical management is complex, because there is not a clear correlation between the in vitro antibiotic susceptibility testing and the patient's clinical outcome.

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* Address correspondence to Juan Taján, Infectious Diseases Dept. CSPT. Parc Tauli, 1. 08208 Sabadell, Spain. E-mail: jtajan@tauli.cat

Authors' addresses: Juan Taján, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Infectious Diseases, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain, E-mail: jtajan@tauli.cat. Mateu Espasa, Corporacio Sanitaria Parc Tauli – Microbiology, UDIAT-CD, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain, E-mail: mespasa@tauli.cat. Montserrat Sala, Marta Navarro, Bernat Font, and Ferran Segura, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí - Infectious Diseases, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain, E-mails: msala@tauli.cat, mnavarro@tauli.cat, bfont@tauli.cat, and fsegura@tauli.cat. Julián González-Martín, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona- Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB) - Anatomia Patològica, Pathology, Pharmacology and Microbiology, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, E-mail: gonzalez@clinic.ub.es.

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