Mycobacteria in Nail Salon Whirlpool Footbaths, California

In 2000, an outbreak of Mycobacterium fortuitum furunculosis affected customers using whirlpool footbaths at a nail salon. We swabbed 30 footbaths in 18 nail salons from 5 California counties and found mycobacteria in 29 (97%); M. fortuitum was the most common. Mycobacteria may pose an infectious ri...

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Autores principales: Vugia, Duc J., Jang, Yvonne, Zizek, Candi, Ely, Janet, Winthrop, Kevin L., Desmond, Edward
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15829204
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1104.040936

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15829204
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1104.040936

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