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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 2001, p. 2033-2034, Vol. 39, No. 5
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.5.2033-2034.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Mycobacterium triplex Infection in a Liver Transplant Patient

E. Hoff,1 M. Sholtis,2 G. Procop,2 C. Sabella,3 J. Goldfarb,3 R. Wyllie,3 R. Cunningham,3 L. Stockman,4 and G. Hall2,*

Departments of Anatomic Pathology,1 Clinical Pathology,2 and Pediatrics,3 Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, and Department of Clinical Microbiology, Mayo Clinic Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota4

Received 28 November 2000/Returned for modification 27 January 2001/Accepted 11 March 2001

Mycobacterium triplex was first named in 1996 as an acid-fast bacillus with features that most resemble Mycobacterium simiae and Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex but which possesses a distinct mycolic acid pattern as well as a distinctive 16S rRNA hypervariable region. It has been isolated from lymph node, sputum, and cerebrospinal fluid specimens, but to date only rare clinical cases of this organism have been reported in the literature. The following is a case report of M. triplex that was isolated from the pericardial and peritoneal fluid of a 13-year-old female liver transplant patient.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Microbiology Section, Department of Clinical Pathology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave. L40, Cleveland, OH 44195-5140. Phone: (216) 444-5990. Fax: (216) 445-6984. E-mail: hallg{at}ccf.org.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 2001, p. 2033-2034, Vol. 39, No. 5
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.5.2033-2034.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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