Genomic Analysis of Cardiac Surgery-Associated Mycobacterium chimaera Infections, United States
Hasan NA, Epperson LE, Lawsin A, Rodger RR, Perkins KM, Halpin AL, Perry KA, Moulton-Meissner H, et al. (14 authors)
Emerging infectious diseases · 2019-03
Abstract
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.
MeSH terms
- Humans
- Mycobacterium
- Mycobacterium Infections
- Surgical Wound Infection
- Cardiac Surgical Procedures
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Genome, Bacterial
- United States