Mok, Simone;
Hannan, Margaret M.;
Nölke, Lars;
Stapleton, Patrick;
O’Sullivan, Niamh;
Murphy, Philip;
McLaughlin, Anne Marie;
McNamara, Eleanor;
Fitzgibbon, Margaret M.;
Rogers, Thomas R.
Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Clinical and Environmental Mycobacterium chimaera Isolates
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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Clinical and Environmental Mycobacterium chimaera Isolates
Contributor:
Mok, Simone;
Hannan, Margaret M.;
Nölke, Lars;
Stapleton, Patrick;
O’Sullivan, Niamh;
Murphy, Philip;
McLaughlin, Anne Marie;
McNamara, Eleanor;
Fitzgibbon, Margaret M.;
Rogers, Thomas R.
imprint:
American Society for Microbiology, 2019
Published in:Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Description:
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<jats:named-content content-type="genus-species">Mycobacterium chimaera</jats:named-content>
is a slow-growing nontuberculous
<jats:italic>Mycobacterium</jats:italic>
species belonging to the
<jats:named-content content-type="genus-species">Mycobacterium avium</jats:named-content>
complex (MAC). It has been identified globally as the cause of a large outbreak of cardiovascular infections following open heart surgery, but it can also cause respiratory infections in individuals with underlying structural pulmonary disease. Invasive
<jats:named-content content-type="genus-species">M. chimaera</jats:named-content>
infections are associated with poor clinical responses, and the optimal antibiotic treatment regimen for these infections is not known.
</jats:p>