Successful termination of an outbreak of <i>Mycobacterium chimaera</i> infections associated with contaminated heater-cooler devices
Alexandre R. Marra, Daniel J. Diekema, Michael B. Edmond
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 2020-10
Abstract
The global outbreak of invasive Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with heater-cooler devices (HCDs) presented several important and unique challenges. To mitigate the risk of infection, we removed the HCDs from operating rooms (ORs) at our hospital and since that time (4.5 years ago) we have had no new cases.
MeSH terms
- Outbreak
- Mycobacterium
- Medicine
- Mycobacterium Infections
- Biology
- Virology