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: Abscess; Children; HIV; Mycobacterium sherrisii; Non-tuberculous mycobacteria; gyrB.