Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Infection After Cardiothoracic Surgery

Ten case reports of disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with cardiovascular surgery were published from Europe. We report 3 cases of disseminated M chimaera infections with histories of aortic graft and/or valvular surgery within the United States. Two of 3 patients demonstrate...

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Autores principales: Tan, Nicholas, Sampath, Rahul, Abu Saleh, Omar M., Tweet, Marysia S., Jevremovic, Dragan, Alniemi, Saba, Wengenack, Nancy L., Sampathkumar, Priya, Badley, Andrew D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5047393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27703994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw131
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author Tan, Nicholas
Sampath, Rahul
Abu Saleh, Omar M.
Tweet, Marysia S.
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Alniemi, Saba
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Sampathkumar, Priya
Badley, Andrew D.
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spelling pubmed-50473932016-10-04 Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Infection After Cardiothoracic Surgery Tan, Nicholas Sampath, Rahul Abu Saleh, Omar M. Tweet, Marysia S. Jevremovic, Dragan Alniemi, Saba Wengenack, Nancy L. Sampathkumar, Priya Badley, Andrew D. Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Reports Ten case reports of disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with cardiovascular surgery were published from Europe. We report 3 cases of disseminated M chimaera infections with histories of aortic graft and/or valvular surgery within the United States. Two of 3 patients demonstrated ocular involvement, a potentially important clinical finding. Oxford University Press 2016-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5047393/ /pubmed/27703994 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofw131 Text en © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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Sampathkumar, Priya
Badley, Andrew D.
Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Infection After Cardiothoracic Surgery
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