Mycobacterium sherrisii visceral disseminated infection in an African HIV-infected adolescent

Abstract

A case of visceral disseminated infection by Mycobacterium sherrisii in an African HIV-infected adolescent with multiple abdominal abscesses is reported. Despite multiple drug resistance to first-line antibiotics in vitro, long-term treatment with clarithromycin, moxifloxacin, and clindamycin, together with appropriate antiretroviral treatment, resulted in clinical and radiological cure after 19 months of therapy and follow-up.

Keywords

• Mycobacterium sherrisii
• Non-tuberculous mycobacteria
• HIV
• Abscess
• Children
• gyrB