Following the COVID-19 infection, the sternum dislocation and wound dehiscence resulted in an infection complicating the recovery of an immunosuppressed patient after bilateral lung transplantation. Anaerobic culture (96 h) of milky cloudy wound secretion resulted in the growth of pinpoint haemolytic colonies identified as Metamycoplasma hominis (formerly Mycoplasma hominis). The search for the endogenous source of the infection found the bacterium exclusively in the patient's sputum, making a possible link to donor lung M. hominis colonization. Unfortunately, the donor samples were no longer available. The wound infection was successfully treated with 17 days of clindamycin despite the continuous PCR detection of M. hominis in the sputum after the end of the treatment.

3 Department of Surgery 1st Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague and Motol University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

Department of Medical Microbiology 2nd Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague 5 Úvalu 84 Prague 5 Motol 150 06 Czech Republic

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