Tap Water Avoidance Decreases Rates of Hospital-onset Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria | Zendy

Arthur W. Baker | Zendy; Jason E. Stout | Zendy; Deverick J. Anderson | Zendy; Daniel J. Sexton | Zendy; Becky Smith | Zendy; Rebekah W. Moehring | Zendy; Kirk Huslage | Zendy; Christopher J. Hostler | Zendy; Sarah S. Lewis | Zendy

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Tap 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 J. Hostler,

Sarah S. Lewis

Publication year - 2020

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/ciaa1237

Subject(s) - medicine , nontuberculous mycobacteria , confidence interval , incidence (geometry) , isolation (microbiology) , rate ratio , respiratory disease , tap water , surgery , mycobacterium , lung , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , tuberculosis , environmental engineering , biology , physics , optics , engineering

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).

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