Contamination during production of heater-cooler units by Mycobacterium chimaera potential cause for invasive cardiovascular infections: Results of an outbreak investigation in Germany, April 2015 to February 2016

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 2016, Pages

  Haller, S ^a   Holler C ^b   Jacobshagen, A ^c   Hamouda, O ^a   Abu Sin, M ^a   Monnet, D L ^d   Plachouras, D ^d   Eckmanns, Tim ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority LGL   (Germany)

^c Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices BfArM   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GERMANY; HEATER COOLER UNIT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHIMAERA; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PATHOGEN LOAD; THORAX SURGERY; COMORBIDITY; DEVICES; EPIDEMIC; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART SURGERY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYOCARDITIS; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VASCULITIS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYOCARDITIS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VASCULITIS;

EID: 84965070538     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.17.30215     Document Type: Article

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