Lee Keun Hwa, Heo Sang Taek, Choi Sung-Wook, Park Da Hee, Kim Young Ree, Yoo Seung Jin
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Jeju National University School of Medicine, Jeju, South Korea.
J Clin Microbiol. 2014 Mar;52(3):1013-5. doi: 10.1128/JCM.02652-13. Epub 2014 Jan 3.
Mycobacterium conceptionense is a species member of Mycobacterium fortuitum complex, a potential pathogen of increasing clinical importance among opportunistic infections. This species causes a wide spectrum of cutaneous and extracutaneous diseases. In this report, we describe three patients who underwent shoulder surgery with postoperative joint infection by M. conceptionense.