Nine-year progression of untreated pulmonary Mycobacterium szulgai infection

Southern Medical Journal
Kanwal RandhawaGuy W Soo Hoo

Abstract

A 58-year-old man was seen with complaints of fevers, night sweats, weight loss, and multiple bilateral cavitary lung lesions. Mycobacterium szulgai with nearly identical antibiograms grew from separate sputum specimens 9 years apart. He was treated with a combination of clarithromycin and ethambutol with clinical, microbiologic, and radiographic resolution of disease. This is the longest untreated case of documented Mycobacterium szulgai infection reported, and offers a glimpse of its natural history when left untreated. Despite an infrequent isolation (<0.5% of cases), it is a pathogenic organism which warrants treatment.

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