Coralie Bouchiat, Julien Saison, Sandrine Boisset, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Bertrand Issartel, Olivier Dauwalder, Yvonne Benito, Sophie Jarraud, Jacqueline Grando, Andre Boibieux, Oana Dumitrescu, François Delahaye, Fadi Farhat, Françoise Thivolet-Bejui, Jean-Philippe Frieh, François Vandenesch
Background. Atypical mycobacteria, or nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), have been barely reported as infective endocarditis (IE) agents. Methods. From January 2010 to December 2013, cardiac valve samples sent to our laboratory as cases of blood culture-negative suspected IE were analyzed by 16S rDNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR). When positive for NTM, hsp PCR allowed species identification. Demographic, clinical, echocardiographic, histopathological, and Ziehl-Neelsen staining data were then collected...
April 2015: Open Forum Infectious Diseases