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Successful termination of an outbreak of Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with contaminated heater-cooler devices
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Successful termination of an outbreak of Mycobacterium chimaera infections associated with contaminated heater-cooler devices

Alexandre R Marra, Daniel J Diekema and Michael B Edmond
Infection control and hospital epidemiology, Vol.42(4), pp.471-473
04/2021
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2020.468
PMID: 33019949

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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.
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