Zainulabid, Ummu Afeera and Cheong, Xiong Khee and Kori, Najma and Abdullah, Shalimar and Chia Hua, Lim and Khalid, Kashfullah and Mohammed Rusli, Emilia Rosniza and Aziz, Muhammad Nazri and Wai-Mun, Leong and Xin Yi, Chew and Abdul Rahman, Ahmad Yamin and Periyasamy, Petrick (2025) From fish fin injury to Mycobacteroides abscessus: precision diagnosis in a complex case using shotgun metagenomics. In: ESCMID Global 2025, 11 - 15 April 2025, Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria.
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Abstract
Mycobacteroides abscessus, a rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterium, is known for multidrug resistance and ability to cause chronic infections. Diagnosis can be challenging when standard culture methods fail. Shotgun metagenomic sequencing (mNGS! provides a culture-independent method for identifying pathogens directly from clinical samples. This report details a case of M. abscessus tenosynovitis in a 57-year-old fishmonger following a fish fin injury, where mNGS enabled diagnosis and guided targeted antibiotic therapy after initial cultures and empiric treatments failed.
Item Type: | Proceeding Paper (Poster) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mycobacteroides abscessus; shotgun metagenomics |
Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC111 Infectious and Parasitic Diseases |
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): | Kulliyyah of Medicine > Department of Internal Medicine |
Depositing User: | Asst. Dr. Ummu Afeera Zainulabid |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2025 10:50 |
Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2025 10:51 |
URI: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/121856 |
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