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Global Health Estimate of Invasive Mycobacterium chimaera Infections Associated with Heater–Cooler Devices in Cardiac Surgery [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
Investigations of a worldwide epidemic of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera associated with heater–cooler devices in cardiac surgery have been hampered by low clinical awareness and challenging diagnoses.
Rami Sommerstein, Barbara Hasse, Jonas Marschall, Hugo Sax, Michele Genoni, Matthias Schlegel, Andreas F. Widmer   +6 more
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Rapid detection of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera disease via a novel plasma-based next-generation sequencing test

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
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.
Jim Nomura, Gunter Rieg, Gary Bluestone, Townson Tsai, Andrew Lai, Dawn Terashita, Sivan Bercovici, David K. Hong, Brian P. Lee   +8 more
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Differences in Drug-Susceptibility Patterns between Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, and Mycobacterium chimaera Clinical Isolates: Prospective 8.5-Year Analysis by Three Laboratories

Antibiotics, 2022
Background: It has been suggested that Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, and M. chimaera have differential drug susceptibility patterns.
Mariana Fernandez-Pittol, Sara Batista-Arnau, Angely Román, Lorena San Nicolás, Laura Oliver, Olga González-Moreno, José Antonio Martínez, Rosanel Amaro-Rodríguez, Néstor Soler, Amadeu Gené, Araceli González-Cuevas, Griselda Tudó, Julian Gonzalez-Martin   +12 more
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Desiccation-Tolerance of Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, Mycobacterium chimaera, Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium chelonae

Pathogens, 2022
Desiccation-tolerance of cells of four strains of Mycobacterium chimaera and individual strains of Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, Mycobacterium abscessus, and Mycobacterium chelonae were measured by two methods.
Joseph O. Falkinham, Myra D. Williams
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Searching for new therapeutic options for the uncommon pathogen Mycobacterium chimaera: an open drug discovery approach

The Lancet Microbe, 2022
Summary Background Mycobacterium chimaera is a slowly growing non-tuberculous mycobacterium associated with outbreaks of fatal infections in patients after cardiac surgery, and it is increasingly being detected in patients with chronic lung conditions. M
Daire M. Cantillon, Aaron Goff, Stuart Taylor, Emad Salehi, K. Fidler, S. Stoneham, S. Waddell   +6 more
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Chimaera

, 2017
Key to Indian Ocean Chimaera species The following key to Indian Ocean Chimaeras is a modification of Ebert (2014), and includes the three new species described here. A few caveats relative to this key; many Chimaera species share similar body coloration, but color can vary greatly within species.
Kemper, Jenny M.
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Mycobacterium chimaera in heater–cooler devices: an experience in a tertiary hospital in Spain

New Microbes and New Infections, 2021
The aim of the study was to describe the Mycobacterium chimaera contamination in heater–cooler devices after the application of a protocol of cleaning and disinfection in a tertiary hospital. It was an observational study at the La Paz-Cantoblanco-Carlos
A. Quintás Viqueira, C. Pérez Romero, C. Toro Rueda, A.M. Sánchez Calles, J.A. Blázquez González, M. Alejandre Leyva   +5 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera: a case report from Italy

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease
Mycobacterium chimaera is an environmental non-tuberculous mycobacterium belonging to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). It has been widely known to be associated with disseminated infection after cardiac surgery, related to heater-cooler units used ...
Martina Maria Seminara, Dina Visca, Alice Claudia Repossi, Antonio Spanevello   +3 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera infections: An update.

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy, 2019
Mycobacterium chimaera is a non-tuberculous mycobacterium belonging to the Mycobacterium avium complex, described for the first time in 2004. It acts as an opportunistic pathogen, with infections, usually respiratory illnesses, occurring more frequently ...
N. Riccardi, J. Monticelli, R. M. Antonello, R. Luzzati, M. Gabrielli, M. Ferrarese, L. Codecasa, Stefano Di Bella, D. Giacobbe   +8 more
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Genomic analysis of cardiac surgery-associated Mycobacterium chimaera infections in Italy.

PLoS ONE, 2020
One hundred and twenty-two Mycobacterium chimaera strains isolated in Italy from cardiac surgery-related patients, cardiac surgery-unrelated patients and from heater-cooler units, were submitted to whole-genome sequencing and to subsequent SNP analysis ...
Arash Ghodousi, Emanuele Borroni, Marta Peracchi, Giorgio Palù, Loredana Fallico, Mario Rassu, Vinicio Manfrin, Paola Mantegani, Vincenzina Monzillo, Riccardo Manganelli, Enrico Tortoli, Daniela Maria Cirillo   +11 more
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