Aortic Endograft Infection with Mycobacterium chimaera and Granulicatella adiacens, Switzerland, 2014

Abstract

We describe an aortic endograft infection caused by Mycobacterium chimaera and Granulicatella adiacens, successfully treated with prolonged antimicrobial drug therapy after complete explantation of the infected endoprosthesis and extra-anatomical reconstruction. Whole-genome sequencing analysis did not indicate a close relationship to bacterial strains known to cause infections after cardiac surgery.

Keywords

• Mycobacterium chimaera
• Granulicatella adiacens
• abdominal aortic endograft infection
• cardiac surgery outbreak
• whole genome sequencing
• tuberculosis and other mycobacteria