Global Health Estimate of Invasive Mycobacterium chimaera Infections Associated with Heater-Cooler Devices in Cardiac Surgery.
- Sommerstein, Rami
- Hasse, Barbara
- Marschall, Jonas
- Sax, Hugo
- Genoni, Michele
- Schlegel, Matthias
- Widmer, Andreas F
Publication date
March 2018
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Abstract
Investigations of a worldwide epidemic of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera associated with heater-cooler devices in cardiac surgery have been hampered by low clinical awareness and challenging diagnoses. Using data from Switzerland, we estimated the burden of invasive M. chimaera to be 156-282 cases/year in 10 major cardiac valve replacement market countries
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