Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial infection should be ruled out in Mycobacterium chelonae empyema

Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial infections

Revision total knee arthroplasty: infection should be ruled out in all cases.

We hypothesized that some aseptic revision total knee arthroplasty failures are indeed caused by occult infection. This prospective study recruited 65 patients undergoing revision total knee arthroplasty. The mean follow-up period was 19 months. Collected synovial fluid was analyzed by Ibis T5000 biosensor (Abbott Molecular Inc, Ill; a multiplex polymerase chain reaction technology). Cases were...

Disseminated cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae infection.

Over the last two decades, a rising proportion of mycobacterial infections have been caused by nontuberculous species such as Mycobacterium chelonae.1-3 Belonging to the M. fortuitum complex,4 M. chelonae is an acidfast bacillus (AFB) that grows rapidly compared with the more common M. tuberculosis. Disseminated cutaneous manifestations are the most common presentations and occur in patients wh...

Mendelian Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Disease in Egyptian Children

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis remains a major health problem in developing countries especially with the emergence of multidrug resistant strains. Mendelian Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Disease (MSMD) is a rare disorder with impaired immunity against mycobacterial pathogens. Reported MSMD etiologies highlight the crucial role of the Interferon gamma /Interleukin 12 (IFN-γ/ IL-12) axis and the phag...

mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease due to il-12rβ1 deficiency in three iranian children

mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial diseases (msmd) is a rare inheritance syndrome, characterized by a disseminated infection with mycobacterium in children following bcg vaccination at birth. regarding the vaccination program in iran, it may consider as a public health problem. the pathogenesis of msmd is dependent on either insufficient production of ifn-gamma (γ) or inadequate response...