TY - JOUR AU - Diaz, Alejandro AU - Ardura, Monica AU - Wang, Huanyu AU - Antonara, Stella AU - Ouellette, Christopher T1 - Osteomyelitis Due to Mycobacterium goodii in an Adolescent, United States T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 11 SP - 2781 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Osteomyelitis is a rare clinical manifestation of infection with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). We report an adolescent with femoral osteomyelitis associated with prosthetic material due to an emerging pathogen, Mycobacterium goodii. Application of secA1 and 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing reliably determined the NTM species, enabling targeted antimicrobial therapy. KW - Nontuberculous mycobacteria KW - Mycobacterium goodii KW - pediatric KW - osteomyelitis KW - bacteria KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - antimicrobial resistance KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid2611.200206 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/11/20-0206_article ER - End of Reference