Transmission of Mycobacterium chimaera from heater-cooler units during cardiac surgery despite an ultraclean air ventilation system

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1008-1013

  Sommerstein, Rami ^a,b   Rüegg, Christian ^b   Kohler, Philipp ^b   Bloemberg, Guido ^c   Kuster, Stefan P ^b   Sax, Hugo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD FLOW; COLONY FORMING UNIT; HEART SURGERY; LAMINAR AIRFLOW; MYCOBACTERIUM; TEMPERATURE; VENTILATOR; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL LOAD; CROSS INFECTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIAL LOAD; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84969132887     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2206.160045     Document Type: Article

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