Abstract
This regards a rare case of blood infection with a nontuberculous mycobacterium, Mycobacterium chelonae. A 50-year-old woman with uremic diabetes presented symptoms of aversion to cold, trembling and high fever at two months after an implant surgery of arteriovenous fistula. Multiple blood cultures all indicated positive results of bacterial infections. After subculture, a Kinyoun-stained smear revealed that the infected bacteria are acid-fast mycobacteria. Results of polymerase chain reaction coupled restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis concluded the M. chelonae infection. Since M. chelonae is fast growing and usually has multiple drug resistance, laboratories in hospitals should establish and provide rapid diagnostic methods for such nontuberculous mycobacterium infections.
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