Ryo Ogata, Takashi Kido, Kazuaki Takeda, Kazuki Nemoto, Riko Heima, Mami Takao, Ritsuko Miyashita, Mutsumi Ozasa, Takatomo Tokito, Daisuke Okuno, Yuya Ito, Hirokazu Yura, Tomohiro Koga, Kunio Hashimoto, Shinnosuke Takemoto, Takahiro Takazono, Hiroshi Ishimoto, Noriho Sakamoto, Kazumasa Fukuda, Yuka Sasaki, Yasushi Obase, Yuji Ishimatsu, Kazuhiro Yatera, Koichi Izumikawa, Hiroshi Mukae
Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by noncaseating epithelioid cell granulomas. However, certain infections can exhibit similar histological findings. We present a case of a 69-year-old man who was initially diagnosed with sarcoidosis and later was confirmed, through 16S rRNA sequencing, to have disseminated Mycobacterium genavense infection. Acid-fast bacteria were detected in the bone marrow biopsy using Ziehl-Neelsen staining, but routine clinical tests did not provide a definitive diagnosis...
August 24, 2023: Microorganisms