Mycobacterium iranicum pulmonary disease in an elderly patient with extensive usual interstitial pneumonia: Case report

Abstract

We report the first case of Mycobacterium iranicum pulmonary disease in an elderly patient with extensive usual interstitial pneumonia and traction bronchiectasis. He was treated with oral doxycycline, ciprofloxacin, and sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim daily for 9 months. This was associated with eradication of the microorganism in the sputum and steady weight gain.

Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of a Mycobacterium iranicum, a Newly Identified Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacteria, Strain SBH312 Isolated in Sabah, Malaysia

“…Recently it has been proposed to move this species to the new genus Mycolicibacterium (Gupta et al, 2018). Till now, this pathogen has been reported in Russia (Lyamin et al, 2020), the USA (Kalra et al, 2022), Spain (Balakrishnan et al, 2013), France (Grandjean et al, 2017), Germany (Becker et al, 2018), Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece (Shojaei et al, 2013), Saudi Arabia (Varghese et al, 2017), China (Zhang et al, 2019), Japan (Inagaki et al, 2016), and Malaysia (Tan et al, 2013) in patients…”