Management of Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Bacteremia in Cancer Patients | Zendy

G. Helou | Zendy; Ray Hachem | Zendy; Giovanna Viola | Zendy; Aline El Zakhem | Zendy; AnneMarie Chaftari | Zendy; Ying Jiang | Zendy; Jeffrey J. Tarrand | Zendy; Issam Raad | Zendy

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Management of Rapidly Growing Mycobacterial Bacteremia in Cancer Patients

Author(s) -

G. Helou,

Ray Hachem,

Giovanna Viola,

Aline El Zakhem,

AnneMarie Chaftari,

Ying Jiang,

Jeffrey J. Tarrand,

Issam Raad

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/cis1032

Subject(s) - bacteremia , medicine , mycobacterium , cancer , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotics , tuberculosis , pathology , biology

Rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) are environmental organisms capable of causing a wide spectrum of diseases. We identified 116 cancer patients with RGM. Mycobacterium mucogenicum was the leading cause of disease. Removal of the catheter correlated with significant decrease in the bacteremia relapse rate (P = .007). A median duration of 4 weeks of therapy produced a good outcome.

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