Disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infection associated with heater-cooler units after aortic valve surgery without endocarditis

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2018 Jun;155(6):2369-2374. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.12.049. Epub 2017 Dec 21.

Authors

Tannaz Asadi¹, Katherine Mullin¹, Eric Roselli², Douglas Johnston², Carmela D Tan³, E Rene Rodriguez³, Steven Gordon⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
² Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
³ Department of Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: gordons@ccf.org.

PMID: 29397149
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.12.049

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Air Conditioning / instrumentation
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Aortic Valve / microbiology*
Environmental Microbiology
Equipment and Supplies / microbiology
Fatal Outcome
Heart Valve Diseases / drug therapy
Heart Valve Diseases / microbiology*
Heating / instrumentation
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mycobacterium / isolation & purification*
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / drug therapy
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / microbiology*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents