Mycobacterium chimaera – a new threat for cardiac surgical patients?

An outbreak of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with “heater-cooler” devices in patients treated with cardiac surgery has been described worldwide. The authors summarize the current state of knowledge regarding the epidemiology, diagnostics, treatment, and prevention of Mycobact...

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Autores principales: Jaworski, Radosław, Naumiuk, Łukasz, Paczkowski, Konrad, Formella, Danuta, Pek, Renata, Zieliński, Jacek, Haponiuk, Ireneusz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2017
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Cardiac Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515744
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2017.66925
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author Jaworski, Radosław
Naumiuk, Łukasz
Paczkowski, Konrad
Formella, Danuta
Pek, Renata
Zieliński, Jacek
Haponiuk, Ireneusz
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Naumiuk, Łukasz
Paczkowski, Konrad
Formella, Danuta
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description An outbreak of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with “heater-cooler” devices in patients treated with cardiac surgery has been described worldwide. The authors summarize the current state of knowledge regarding the epidemiology, diagnostics, treatment, and prevention of Mycobacterium chimaera infections in patients after cardiothoracic surgery.
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spelling pubmed-54041232017-05-17 Mycobacterium chimaera – a new threat for cardiac surgical patients? Jaworski, Radosław Naumiuk, Łukasz Paczkowski, Konrad Formella, Danuta Pek, Renata Zieliński, Jacek Haponiuk, Ireneusz Kardiochir Torakochirurgia Pol Cardiac Surgery An outbreak of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with “heater-cooler” devices in patients treated with cardiac surgery has been described worldwide. The authors summarize the current state of knowledge regarding the epidemiology, diagnostics, treatment, and prevention of Mycobacterium chimaera infections in patients after cardiothoracic surgery. Termedia Publishing House 2017-03-31 2017-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5404123/ /pubmed/28515744 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/kitp.2017.66925 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Polish Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons (Polskie Towarzystwo KardioTorakochirurgów) and the editors of the Polish Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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Mycobacterium chimaera – a new threat for cardiac surgical patients?
title Mycobacterium chimaera – a new threat for cardiac surgical patients?
title_full Mycobacterium chimaera – a new threat for cardiac surgical patients?
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title_short Mycobacterium chimaera – a new threat for cardiac surgical patients?
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topic Cardiac Surgery
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