Rapidly growing mycobacteria among pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant patients traced to the hospital water supply

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1043-1046

  Tam, Pui Ying Iroh ^a   Kline, Susan ^a   Wagner, John E ^a   Guspiel, Amanda ^b   Streifel, Andrew ^c   Ward, Ginger ^b   Messinger, Keith ^b   Ferrieri, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Nontuberculous mycobacteria; Pediatric hematopoietic cell transplant; Rapidly growing mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROTROPH; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924287347     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000391     Document Type: Article

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