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Gina Oda1, Russell Ryono1, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan1
11Public Health Surveillance and Research,Department of Veterans Affairs,Palo Alto,California.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|July 12, 2017
Abstract:
We evaluated the isolation of postoperative nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) associated with heater-cooler devices (HCDs) used during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery in the Veterans Health Administration from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2016. In more than 38,000 CPB procedures, NTM was isolated in 111 patients; 1 Mycobacterium chimaera mediastinitis case and 1 respiratory isolate were found. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:1103-1106.
