Svirbely J R, Buesching W J, Ayers L W, Baker P B, Britton A J
Am J Clin Pathol. 1983 Nov;80(5):733-5. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/80.5.733.
A patient with histiocytic lymphoma who developed a Hickman catheter exist site infection due to Mycobacterium fortuitum is described. Due to the risk of dissemination in immunosuppressed patients and the resistance to antibiotic therapy, rapid-growing mycobacteria should be considered when gram-positive bacilli are associated with infections in patients with these catheters.
