@article{mbs:/content/journal/acmi/10.1099/acmi.0.000161, author = "Congedo, Pierluigi and Gardellini, Angelo and Corich, Lucia and Papa, Angela and Turrini, Mauro", title = "The first case of Mycobacterium vaccae sepsis in a non-Hodgkin lymphoma patient: biological understandings and clinical consequencies", journal= "Access Microbiology", year = "2020", volume = "2", number = "10", pages = "", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000161", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/acmi/10.1099/acmi.0.000161", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "2516-8290", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "sepsis", keywords = "MALDI-TOF", keywords = "Mycobaterium vaccae", keywords = "Lymphoma", keywords = "CRBSI", eid = "e000161", abstract = " Mycobacterium vaccae is a rapidly growing nonpathogenic species of the Mycobacteriaceae family of bacteria that can cause pulmonary and disseminated disease in particular in immunocompromised individuals. Here we describe a first case of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass-spectrometry (MS) identification of this pathogen in a patient with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma during chemoimmunotherapy salvage treatment, and its impact on clinical decision making.", }