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Mycobacterium chimaera chorioretinitis preceding central nervous system lesions: a case report and review of the literature. [PDF]

BMC Ophthalmol, 2022
Background Mycobacterium chimaera ocular infection is a rare disease that is linked to bypass devices used during cardiothoracic surgeries. Reported cases in the literature of ocular involvement preceding CNS involvement are based on clinical exam with ...
Veenis A, Haghnegahdar M, Ajlan R.
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Case report of the first cured patient with Mycobacterium Chimaera infection following cardiac valve replacement in the mainland of China. [PDF]

Antimicrob Resist Infect Control, 2021
Background Mycobacterium chimaera infections subsequent to cardiac surgery are related to contaminated heater-cooler devices, with high mortality. Nevertheless, few studies have been reported in Asia.
Lu D, Zhang CH, Chen LJ, Jin PF, Feng XF, Zhou X, Huang WC, Wang J, Dai Y, Fu Y.   +9 more
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Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infection in a patient with adult-onset immunodeficiency syndrome: case report. [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis, 2022
Background Patients with adult-onset immunodeficiency syndrome due to anti-interferon-γ autoantibodies (AIGAs) are susceptible to disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infections. M.
Lin YF, Lee TF, Wu UI, Huang CF, Cheng A, Lin KY, Hung CC.   +6 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera in heater-cooler devices: an experience in a tertiary hospital in Spain. [PDF]

New Microbes New Infect, 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
Quintás Viqueira A, Pérez Romero C, Toro Rueda C, Sánchez Calles AM, Blázquez González JA, Alejandre Leyva M.   +5 more
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Mycobacterium chimaera Genomics With Regard to Epidemiological and Clinical Investigations Conducted for an Open Chest Postsurgical Mycobacterium chimaera Infection Outbreak. [PDF]

Open Forum Infect Dis, 2021
Abstract Background Postsurgical infections due to Mycobacterium chimaera appeared as a novel nosocomial threat in 2015, with a worldwide outbreak due to contaminated heater-cooler units used in open chest surgery.
Lecorche E, Daniau C, La K, Mougari F, Benmansour H, Kumanski S, Robert J, Fournier S, Lebreton G, Carbonne A, Cambau E, CNR-MyRMA .   +11 more
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A Case of Granulomatous Interstitial Nephritis Associated with <i>Mycobacterium chimaera</i> Disseminated Infection. [PDF]

Microorganisms
Mycobacterium chimaera infections are becoming increasingly frequent in patients with a history of cardiac surgery. We herein report a case of a patient admitted to the Nephrology Unit of Padua University Hospital with deteriorating kidney function ...
Cacciapuoti M, Mazzitelli M, Naso E, De Giorgi ML, Samassa G, Di Vico V, Marinello S, Stefanelli LF, Calò L, Cattelan A, Nalesso F.   +10 more
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Pharmacologic Management of Mycobacterium chimaera Infections: A Primer for Clinicians. [PDF]

Open Forum Infect Dis, 2022
Abstract Mycobacterium chimaera, a member of the Mycobacterium avium complex, can cause infections in individuals after open heart surgery due to contaminated heater-cooler units. The diagnosis can be challenging, as the incubation period can be quite variable, and symptoms are nonspecific.
Mason M, Gregory E, Foster K, Klatt M, Zoubek S, Eid AJ.   +5 more
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Detection of Mycobacterium chimaera in medical device water samples by customised real time PCR using a InGenius platform. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mycobacterium chimaera, belonging to the Mycobacterium avium complex, is an opportunistic environmental mycobacterium which has been isolated from medical device water samples such as Heater Cooler Units (HCU).
Bisognin F, Borghi M, Faccio M, Ferraro V, Sorella F, Crovara Pesce CM, Primavera A, Dal Monte P.   +7 more
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Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infection favoring the development of Kaposi's sarcoma: a case report. [PDF]

Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob, 2022
Background Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infection is an emerging disease in people undergone to cardiothoracic surgery, which need to be suspected also with atypical presentations.
Clemente T, Spagnuolo V, Bottanelli M, Ripa M, Del Forno B, Busnardo E, Di Lucca G, Castagna A, Danise A.   +8 more
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Genomic analysis of cardiac surgery-associated Mycobacterium chimaera infections in Italy. [PDF]

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 ...
Ghodousi A, Borroni E, Peracchi M, Palù G, Fallico L, Rassu M, Manfrin V, Mantegani P, Monzillo V, Manganelli R, Tortoli E, Cirillo DM.   +11 more
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