Open AccessTap Water Avoidance Decreases Rates of Hospital-onset Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
Author(s) -
Arthur W. Baker,
Jason E. Stout,
Deverick J. Anderson,
Daniel J. Sexton,
Becky Smith,
Rebekah W. Moehring,
Kirk Huslage,
Christopher Hostler,
Sarah S. Lewis
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciaa1237
Subject(s) - medicine , nontuberculous mycobacteria , incidence (geometry) , confidence interval , isolation (microbiology) , rate ratio , mycobacterium avium complex , respiratory system , respiratory disease , mycobacterium , lung , microbiology and biotechnology , tuberculosis , pathology , physics , optics , biology
We analyzed the impact of a hospital tap water avoidance protocol on respiratory isolation of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). After protocol implementation, hospital-onset episodes of respiratory NTM isolation on high-risk units decreased from 41.0 to 9.9 episodes per 10 000 patient-days (incidence rate ratio, 0.24; 95% confidence interval, .17-.34; P < .0001).