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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. [PDF]

Antibiotics (Basel), 2022
Background: It has been suggested that Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, and M. chimaera have differential drug susceptibility patterns.
Fernandez-Pittol M, Batista-Arnau S, Román A, San Nicolás L, Oliver L, González-Moreno O, Martínez JA, Amaro-Rodríguez R, Soler N, Gené A, González-Cuevas A, Tudó G, Gonzalez-Martin J.   +12 more
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An Unfavorable Outcome of M. chimaera Infection in Patient with Silicosis

Diagnostics, 2022
Mycobacterium chimaera is a slow-growing, nontuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) belonging to the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). It was identified as a unique species in 2004.
Ewa Łyżwa, Izabela Siemion-Szcześniak, Małgorzata Sobiecka, Katarzyna Lewandowska, Katarzyna Zimna, Małgorzata Bartosiewicz, Lilia Jakubowska, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kopeć, Witold Tomkowski   +8 more
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Mycobacterium Chimaera Mimicking Sarcoidosis [PDF]

Methodist DeBakey Cardiovascular Journal, 2018
Mycobacterium chimaera (M. chimaera) is a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacteria usually associated with pulmonary infection in immunocompromised patients. Attributed to a specific brand of contaminated heater-cooler units used during cardiac surgery, M.
Sarju, Ganatra, Ajay, Sharma, Richard, D'Agostino, Thomas, Gage, Paula, Kinnunen   +4 more
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Biofilm formation by the global outbreak strain of Mycobacterium chimaera results in significantly reduced efficacy of standard disinfectants. [PDF]

BMC Microbiol
Background In 2013, a global outbreak of Mycobacterium chimaera infections due to contaminated heater-cooler units emerged. This ongoing problem has highlighted the question of whether disinfection recommendations for medical devices containing water ...
Oschmann AM, Konrat K, Schaudinn C, Sohl G, Wagner D, Lewin A, Arvand M.   +6 more
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Mycobacterium Chimaera: A Rare Presentation [PDF]

Cureus, 2018
Mycobacterium chimaera is an indolent nontuberculous mycobacterium which is abundant in soil, dust, and water. Although lacking recognition garnered by other mycobacteria (i.e., M. tuberculosis), it has been recognized as an emerging opportunistic threat to patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery and open heart procedures requiring extracorporeal ...
Miskoff, Jeffrey A, Chaudhri, Moiuz
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"Spitting Stones" and Broncholithiasis Caused by <i>Mycobacterium chimaera</i> in a Patient Affected by Bronchiectasis: A Rare Clinical Case. [PDF]

Case Rep Pulmonol
We describe the case of a 62-year-old woman with underlying bronchiectasis who referred to our respiratory outpatient clinic for hemoptysis and lithoptysis, in addition to difficulty gaining weight over years.
Migliarini A, Iacovelli A, Mirabelli FM, Capone R, Nicolardi ML, Bosco D, Adotti F, Oliva A, Palange P.   +8 more
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Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infection successfully treated with a clofazimine-containing regimen and long-term follow-up after discontinuing treatment. [PDF]

IDCases
Mycobacterium chimaera is a slow-growing member of the Mycobacterium avium complex. It can contaminate tap water and has been detected in water tanks of heater-cooler devices used during open-heart surgery.
Kobayashi T, Ford B, Diekema DJ, Sekar P.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Investigating the Origin of Mycobacterium chimaera Contamination in Heater-Cooler Units: Integrated Analysis with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Whole-Genome Sequencing. [PDF]

Microbiol Spectr, 2022
Mycobacterium chimaera is ubiquitously spread in the environment, including factory and hospital water systems. Invasive cases of M. chimaera infection have been associated with aerosols produced by the use of heater-cooler units (HCU) during cardiac ...
Bisognin F, Messina F, Butera O, Nisii C, Mazzarelli A, Cristino S, Pascale MR, Lombardi G, Cannas A, Dal Monte P.   +9 more
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Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. chimaera from Cardio Surgery Heating-Cooling Units and from Clinical Samples in Israel Are Genetically Unrelated

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, Rona Grossman, Israel Nissan, Mitchell J. Schwaber, Yehuda Carmeli, Hasia Kaidar-Shwartz, Zeev Dveyrin, Efrat Rorman   +7 more
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Heater cooler and Mycobacterium chimaera [PDF]

European Journal of Public Health, 2017
Mycobacterium chimaera (MC) was identified in some patients who underwent surgery operations. Literature has identified as possible means of contamination condensed water from heater-cooler devices (HCDs) which is aerosolized during operation. Manufactures of HCDs provide disinfection procedures in order to minimize the risk of contamination.
Lenzi, D., Serafini, A., Rosadini, D., Burgassi, S., Castellani, D., Pozzi, G., Ricci, S., Messina, G.   +7 more
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