Moritz Donna C, Harrington Amanda T, Slavin Konstantin, Gomez Christy, Jarrett Olamide D
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine, 808 South Wood Street, MC 735, Suite 888, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA.
Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA.
Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2017 Nov;159(11):2239-2241. doi: 10.1007/s00701-017-3335-5. Epub 2017 Sep 20.
Devise-related infections after deep brain stimulator implantation are not uncommon. However, infections due to mycobacteria have not been reported in the medical literature. We describe the first reported case of DBS infection due to a novel rapidly growing mycobacteria, most closely resembling Mycobacterium goodii, by rpoB gene sequencing.