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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
; 44(12): 2056-2058, 2023 Dec.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37272469
RESUMO
A pseudo-outbreak of bronchoscopy-associated Mycobacterium chelonae and M. mucogenicum was traced to contaminated ice machine water and ice. A nonsterile ice bath was used to cool uncapped, sterile, saline syringes used to slow procedural bleeding. Joining the growing evidence of bronchoscopy pseudo-outbreaks, our investigation describes several lessons for future prevention.