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Non-tuberculous Mycobacterial Pseudo-outbreak of an Intestinal Culture Specimen Caused by a Water Tap in an Endoscopy Unit

OBJECTIVE: Gastrointestinal lesions of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are regarded as opportunistic infections. A large number of positive specimens of NTM were identified in an intestinal fluid culture in the endoscopy unit and it was considered to be a pseudo-outbreak. METHODS: We reviewed the...

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Autores principales: Satta, Yusuke, Yamashita, Masaki, Matsuo, Yasumasa, Kiyokawa, Hirofumi, Sato, Yoshinori, Takemura, Hiromu, Kunishima, Hiroyuki, Yasuda, Hiroshi, Itoh, Fumio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32641662
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.5188-20