Sm. Berman et al., MYCOBACTERIUM GENAVENSE INFECTION PRESENTING AS A SOLITARY BRAIN MASSIN A PATIENT WITH AIDS - CASE-REPORT AND REVIEW, Clinical infectious diseases, 19(6), 1994, pp. 1152-1154
Patients with AIDS are prone to developing infections with opportunist
ic pathogens. Recently, a new mycobacterium, Mycobacterium genavense,
has been found to cause infection in patients with AIDS. Previously pu
blished reports indicate that patients who are infected with this orga
nism present with the same clinical features as do patients with disse
minated infection due to organisms of the Mycobacterium avium complex.
We describe an unusual case of a patient with AIDS who presented with
grand mal seizures and a mass lesion in his brain, which was found to
be caused by infection with M. genavense. No evidence of disseminated
infection could be found in this patient. We discuss the microbiology
of this organism and review the literature on M. genavense infections
. Clinicians should be aware of this organism so that efforts at cultu
re and identification will be made.