Rapid detection of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera disease via a novel plasma-based next-generation sequencing test

BACKGROUND: There is an ongoing outbreak of Mycobacterium chimaera infections among patients exposed to contaminated heater-cooler devices used during cardiac surgery. Recognition of M. chimaera infection is hampered by its long latency and non-specific symptoms. Standard diagnostic methods using ac...

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Autores principales: Nomura, Jim, Rieg, Gunter, Bluestone, Gary, Tsai, Townson, Lai, Andrew, Terashita, Dawn, Bercovici, Sivan, Hong, David K., Lee, Brian P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6498503/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31046692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4001-8

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