Genomic Analysis of Cardiac Surgery–Associated Mycobacterium chimaera Infections, United States
- Nabeeh A. Hasan
- L. Elaine Epperson
- Adrian Lawsin
- Rachael R. Rodger
- Kiran M. Perkins
- Alison Laufer Halpin
- K. Allison Perry
- Heather Moulton-Meissner
- Daniel J. Diekema
- Matthew B. Crist
- Joseph F. Perz
- Max Salfinger
- Charles L. Daley
- Michael Strong
Publication date
March 2019
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ISSN
1080-6040 Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
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-genome sequencing corroborated a risk for these units acting as a reservoir for this pathogen
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