Prolonged outbreak of mycobacterium chimaera infection after open-chest heart surgery

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-75

  Sax, Hugo ^a   Bloemberg, Guido ^b   Hasse, Barbara ^a   Sommerstein, Rami ^a   Kohler, Philipp ^a   Achermann, Yvonne ^a   Rössle, Matthias ^a   Falk, Volkmar ^a   Kuster, Stefan P ^a   Böttger, Erik C ^b   Weber, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

infection control; Mycobacterium chimaera; nontuberculous mycobacteria; open chest heart surgery; outbreak

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; MOXIFLOXACIN; RIFABUTIN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ANNULOPLASTY RING; AORTA ROOT PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; ATS VALVE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOPSY; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GRAFT INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY RING; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHIMAERA; MYCOBACTERIUM CHIMAERA INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN CHEST HEART SURGERY; OPEN HEART SURGERY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VASCULAR GRAFT INFECTION; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORAX SURGERY;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 84948671530     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ198     Document Type: Article

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