Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus wound infections among "lipotourists" from the United States who underwent abdominoplasty in the Dominican Republic

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1181-1188

  Furuya, E Yoko ^a   Paez, Armando ^e   Srinivasan, Arjun ^g   Cooksey, Robert ^g   Augenbraun, Michael ^c   Baron, Miriam ^f   Brudney, Karen ^a   Della Latta, Phyllis ^b   Estivariz, Concepcion ^g   Fischer, Staci ^h   Flood, Mary ^a   Kellner, Pamela ^d   Roman, Carmen ^d   Yakrus, Mitchell ^g   Weiss, Don ^d   Granowitz, Eric V ^e,i  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^h RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MONOTHERAPY; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RASH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; UNITED STATES; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42549101914     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/529191     Document Type: Article

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