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Corresponding author. Address: Department of Disease Prevention and Control, Second Medical Centre of PLA General Hospital, 28 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100853, People's Republic of China. Tel./fax: +86 10 68295439.
Department of Disease Prevention and Control, Hainan Hospital of PLA General Hospital, Sanya, Hainan, People's Republic of ChinaDepartment of Disease Prevention and Control, Second Medical Centre of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, People's Republic of China
We present the first reported case of a patient who developed a postoperative sternal
wound infection due to Mycobacterium farcinogenes. The microbe is a rapid grower suggestive of atypical mycobacterium, and the principal
causative agent of bovine farcy. M. farcinogenes is an uncommon cause of human disease and only a few cases have been described to
date [
]. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of a sternal wound infection
caused by M. farcinogenes. On 4th March 2021, a 69-year-old male patient underwent a median sternotomy for a coronary
artery bypass graft. Subsequently, he became febrile (38.1 °C) and complained of sternal
pain on postoperative day 24. The patient developed a deep sternal wound infection
(DSWI) diagnosed by surgeons according to published criteria [
]. The simplified timeline for DSWI history of this patient is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1Simplified timeline for deep sternal wound infection history of the case patient.
NWPT, negative pressure wound therapy; CT, computed tomography; PET, positron emission
tomography.
Metagenomic next-generation sequencing in the diagnosis of deep sternal wound infection after cardiac transplantation: a case report and literature review.
