Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera Infection After Cardiothoracic Surgery
| Autor: | Rahul Sampath, Priya Sampathkumar, Marysia S. Tweet, Nicholas Y. Tan, Andrew D. Badley, Saba Alniemi, Nancy L. Wengenack, Omar Abu Saleh, Dragan Jevremovic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Aortic graft Aorta medicine.medical_specialty Valve surgery business.industry 030106 microbiology Cardiac surgery Surgery 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Infectious Diseases Oncology Cardiothoracic surgery medicine.artery medicine Cardiovascular Surgical Procedure 030212 general & internal medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 3 |
| ISSN: | 2328-8957 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ofid/ofw131 |
| Popis: | Ten case reports of disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with cardiovascular surgery were published from Europe. We report 3 cases of disseminated M chimaera infections with histories of aortic graft and/or valvular surgery within the United States. Two of 3 patients demonstrated ocular involvement, a potentially important clinical finding. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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