PRO/EDR> Central venous catheter infection – USA: (AR) new Mycobacterium sp, saline flush

Hospital-Related Infection — United States
[A patient] used to travel once a week from his home in Dumas for chemotherapy treatments at Arkansas Cancer Institute. [The 56-year-old patient] had been going to the Pine Bluff clinic for about a year for treatment of his multiple myeloma, which is a cancer of the plasma cells. It had been going “all right,” he said. He’d gotten to know the other patients a little, and it was more convenient than going all the way to Little Rock [Arkansas]. Until August [2018], that is, when something went