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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1998, p. 1422-1424, Vol. 36, No. 5
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Recurrent Catheter-Related Infection Caused by a Single Clone of Mycobacterium chelonae with Two Colonial Morphotypes

Po-ren Hsueh,1,2 Lee-jene Teng,3 Pan-chyr Yang,2 Yu-chi Chen,1 Shen-wu Ho,3 and Kwen-tay Luh1,2,*

Departments of Laboratory Medicine1 and Internal Medicine,2 National Taiwan University Hospital, and School of Medical Technology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine,3 Taipei, Taiwan

Received 30 December 1997/Returned for modification 5 February 1998/Accepted 20 February 1998

We describe herein a recurrent catheter-related (Port-A-Cath; Smiths Industries Medical Systems [SIMS] Deltec, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.) infection caused by multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium chelonae with two colonial morphotypes in a 53-year-old woman with gastric adenocarcinoma. Four isolates recovered from this patient within a 3-month period were found to belong to a single clone on the basis of the isolates' identical antibiotypes as determined by the E test and their identical random amplified polymorphic DNA patterns.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan Rd., Taipei, Taiwan. Phone: 886-2-3562150. Fax: 886-2-3224263. E-mail: luhkt{at}ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1998, p. 1422-1424, Vol. 36, No. 5
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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