Mycobacterium avium pseudo-outbreak associated with an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic: Lessons for reprocessing.
Abstract
We identified a pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium avium in an outpatient bronchoscopy
clinic following an increase in clinic procedure volume. We terminated the pseudo-outbreak
by increasing the frequency of automated endoscope reprocessors (AER) filter changes
from quarterly to monthly. Filter changing schedules should depend on use rather than
fixed time intervals.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Infectious Diseases
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INTRACELLULARE
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19139Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1017/ice.2018.298Publication Info
Seidelman, Jessica L; Wallace, Richard J; Iakhiaeva, Elena; Vasireddy, Ravikiran;
Brown-Elliott, Barbara A; McKnight, Celeste; ... Lewis, Sarah S (2019). Mycobacterium avium pseudo-outbreak associated with an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic:
Lessons for reprocessing. Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 40(1). pp. 106-108. 10.1017/ice.2018.298. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19139.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Luke Francis Chen
Associate Professor of Medicine
Epidemiology, Infection Prevention, Infection Control, Outbreak Investigations, Multi-drug
resistant organisms, multidrug-resistant gram-negative pathogens MDR GNR (e.g. ESBL,
CRE, KPC, NDM-1), C. difficile, MRSA infections health care epidemiology, HIV medicine,
respiratory viral infections, infection control and prevention, health care-associated
infections including bloodstream and surgical-site infections
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Sarah Stamps Lewis
Associate Professor of Medicine
Jessica Seidelman
Associate Professor of Medicine
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