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Mycobacterium chimaera infections: An update
Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy, 2020Mycobacterium 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 in immunocompromised patients or in patients with underlying respiratory diseases.
Roberto Luzzati +2 more
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Clinical and Environmental Mycobacterium chimaera Isolates. [PDF]
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 2019 Mycobacterium chimaera is a slow-growing nontuberculous Mycobacterium species belonging to the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). It has been identified globally as the cause of a large outbreak of cardiovascular infections following open heart surgery, but it can also cause ...
Philip Murphy +2 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera and cardiac surgery
Medical Journal of Australia, 2017There is an ongoing investigation into infections with non-tuberculous mycobacteria associated with contaminated heater-cooler units used in cardiac surgery. The overall risk is low, but surgical site and disseminated infections have been reported, including one possible case in Australia, mainly with surgery involving implantation of prosthetic ...
Andrew J, Stewardson +3 more
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Frequency of Mycobacterium chimaera among Belgian patients, 2015
Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2016 Mycobacterium chimaera arouses an increasing public health concern, as this non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) has recently been associated with life-threatening cardiac infections. M. chimaera and Mycobacteriumintracellulare are genetically very close but recently appeared to present different epidemiological and clinical significance.
Vanessa Mathys +2 more
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Clinical and Multimodal Imaging Findings in Disseminated Mycobacterium Chimaera
Ophthalmology Retina, 2021To characterize the ophthalmic clinical and multimodal imaging findings of disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infection after cardiothoracic surgery.Observational case series.Four patients (8 eyes) with disseminated M. chimaera infection.Patients were evaluated with biomicroscopy, OCT and OCT angiography, fundus autofluorescence, and fluorescein and ...
Jordan D. Deaner +7 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera Hepatitis
American Journal of Surgical Pathology, 2019Mycobacterium chimaera was identified as a species within the Mycobacterium avium complex in 2004. Until recently, it was predominantly seen in immunocompromised patients. In 2015, an outbreak of disseminated M. chimaera disease was described in European patients after undergoing open-heart surgery in which contaminated ...
Nafis, Shafizadeh +4 more
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Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2017 The increasing number of infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) has prompted the need for rapid and precise identification methods of these pathogens. Several studies report the applicability of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry (MS) for identification of NTM. However, some closely related species have very similar spectral mass fingerprints,
Markus Kostrzewa, Markus Timke
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Primary Orbital Presentation of Mycobacterium chimaera Infection
Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive SurgeryMycobacterium chimaera (M. chimaera ) is a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacterium, which, in humans, is mainly associated with cardiothoracic surgical infections and rarely presents with ocular involvement.
Gabriella, Guevara +3 more
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Mycobacterium Chimaera Choroiditis
Ophthalmology Retina, 2021Wijak, Kongwattananon +2 more
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