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360 Degree Air Cooler and Heater [PDF]
, 2021 360 degree air cooler and heater is a device used to cool or heat the air according to the requirement of the user. As the years are passing by the energy consumption by humans is also increasing as a result there will be no energy or less energy left ...
Yadnyesh Kumkar
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Microorganisms, 2023 Background: From 2013 onwards, a large outbreak of Mycobacterium chimaera (MC) invasive infection, which was correlated with the use of contaminated heater–cooler units (HCUs) during open chest surgery, was reported from all over the world.
Angela Cannas +11 more
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Microorganisms, 2023 Mycobacterium chimaera is a slow-growing non-tuberculous mycobacterium already known for being able to colonize cardio surgery heater–cooler units (HCUs).
Silvia Cocchio +12 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with heater–cooler units in cardiac surgery [PDF]
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2017 Purpose of reviewMycobacterium chimaerainfections following cardiac surgery have been reported from an increasing number of countries. These infections are characterized by a poor prognosis with a case fatality rate around 50% despite treatment. Since the first description in 2013, our understanding has grown steadily.
Schreiber, Peter W, Sax, Hugo
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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 +11 more
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International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2021 Mycobacterium chimaera has been described in postoperative cardiovascular procedures in patients after an outbreak of contaminated 3T heater–cooler units.
Sara Haddad +4 more
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Genomic Analysis of Cardiac Surgery–Associated Mycobacterium chimaera Infections, United States
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019 A surgical heater–cooler unit has been implicated as the source for Mycobacterium chimaera infections among cardiac surgery patients in several countries. We isolated M. chimaera from heater–cooler units and patient infections in the United States. Whole-
Nabeeh A. Hasan +13 more
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A Year in the Life of a Contaminated Heater-Cooler Unit With Mycobacterium chimaera? [PDF]
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2017 OBJECTIVE Heater-cooler units (HCUs) have been shown to be a source of Mycobacterium chimaera infections. For the past year, weekly water samples have been taken from HCUs used at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust.
Mark I, Garvey +2 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera in heater-cooler devices: an experience in a tertiary hospital in Spain. [PDF]
, 2020 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
Quintás Viqueira, A +5 more
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Pathogens, 2021 Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are opportunistic pathogens that cause illness primarily in the elderly, in the immunocompromised or in patients with underlying lung disease.
Mor Rubinstein +7 more
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