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Summary
A woman aged 74 years with an implanted dual-chamber pacemaker presented with pacemaker site infection after failing empiric antimicrobial therapy. The pathogen was later identified as Mycobacterium goodii, a rapidly growing mycobacteria species. The pacemaker was subsequently removed and the patient was treated with oral ciprofloxacin and doxycycline with clinical improvement. In this article, we describe a rare case of pacemaker site infection by M. goodii.
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Contributors DKY was responsible for conducting the chart review, relevant literature review and compiling the initial draft of the manuscript. SMH-M is the primary physician and was responsible for conceptualising the work and the critical revision of the manuscript. All authors were involved in the final revision of the manuscript.
Competing interests None declared.
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