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Case Report

A case of pulmonary infection with Mycobacterium fortuitum during chemotherapy for lung cancer

Hiroki Tashiro  Koichiro Takahashi  Go Kato  Kazutoshi Komiya  Naoko Sueoka-Aragane  Shinichiro Hayashi 

Division of Hematology, Respiratory Medicine and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University

ABSTRACT

A 53-year-old man receiving chemotherapy for lung cancer was admitted to Saga University Hospital for evaluation of fever and pulmonary infiltration on chest radiograph. He was diagnosed as acute pulmonary mycobacteriosis caused by M. fortuitum. Combination therapy using amikacin and levofloxacin for 6 months led to improvement of radiological and bacteriological findings. There have been some reports of pulmonary M. fortuitum infection during cancer chemotherapy using cytotoxic agents. Our experience with the present case extends this knowledge and suggests that attention should be paid to possible acute mycobacterium infection during chemotherapy.

KEYWORDS

Mycobacterium fortuitum  Lung cancer  Chemotherapy 

Received 8 Nov 2013 / Accepted 6 Jan 2014

AJRS, 3(3): 438-441, 2014

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