Mycobacterium sherrisii: a new opportunistic agent in HIV infection?

摘要

Mycobacterium sherrisii, a recently described mycobacterial species closely related to Mycobacterium simiae, has previously been implicated in a pulmonary infection We report the first case of disseminated M. sherrisii infection in a severely imniuno compromised patient.A 53-year-old man living in Africa for 30 years was transferred to France with a fever and general weakness of several months' duration. He had tested positive for HIV infection in 2003 while hospitalized for pulmonary tuberculosis. He was then lost to follow-up until 2005, when HAAR.T was started (nevirapine, lamivudine and stavudine).