Insidious Risk of SevereMycobacterium chimaeraInfection in Cardiac Surgery Patients
Author(s) -
Meera Chand,
Theresa Lamagni,
Katharina Kranzer,
Jessica Hedge,
Ginny Moore,
Simon Parks,
Samuel Collins,
Carlos del Ojo Elias,
Nada Ahmed,
Tim Brown,
E. Grace Smith,
Peter Hoffman,
Peter Kirwan,
Brendan W. Mason,
Alison SmithPalmer,
Philip Veal,
Maeve K. Lalor,
Allan Bennett,
James T. Walker,
Alicia Yeap,
Antonio Isidro Carrión Martín,
Gayle P. Dolan,
Sonia Bhatt,
Andrew Skingsley,
André Charlett,
David B. Pearce,
Katherine Russell,
Simon Kendall,
A. A. Klein,
Stephen Robins,
Silke Schelenz,
William Newsholme,
Stephanie Thomas,
Tim Collyns,
Eleri Davies,
Jim McMenamin,
Lorraine Doherty,
Tim Peto,
Derrick W. Crook,
Maria Zambon,
Nick Phin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciw754
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiopulmonary bypass , cardiac surgery , etiology , surgery , cardiothoracic surgery , mycobacterium , pathology , tuberculosis
An urgent UK investigation was launched to assess risk of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera infection in cardiothoracic surgery and a possible association with cardiopulmonary bypass heater-cooler units following alerts in Switzerland and The Netherlands.
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