Mycobacterium simiae Pseudo-Outbreak Resulting From a Contaminated Hospital Water Supply

Mycobacterium simiae pseudo-outbreak resulting from a contaminated hospital water supply in Houston, Texas.

Various species of nontuberculous mycobacteria are known to cause nosocomial pseudo-outbreaks, but there have been no detailed reports of nosocomial Mycobacterium simiae pseudo-outbreaks. From April 1997 through February 2001, we recovered 65 M. simiae isolates from 62 patients at a community teaching hospital in Houston, Texas. The organism was grown in various water samples obtained in the ho...

Pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium fortuitum due to contaminated ice machines.

BACKGROUND An almost 4-fold increase from normal baseline levels in the isolation of Mycobacterium fortuitum from respiratory tract specimens was observed. The majority of these isolates were obtained from patients residing on 1 of 2 wards, prompting an epidemiologic investigation. METHODS In addition to patient specimens, environmental cultures were collected from various water sources on th...

Investigation of Mycobacterium Pseudo-outbreak

Mycobacterium habana ' and Mycobacterium simiae

3 Departamento de Gen4tica y Microbiologla, Universidad de Murcia, Facuitad de Medicina, Universidad de Murcia, Campus Universitario de Espinardo, Aptdo 4021, 30100 Murcia, Spain Fatty and mycolic acids and the pattern of glycolipids were studied in a collection of 34 strains of 'Mycobacterium habana' and in two strains of Mycobacterium simiae. Major glycolipids of these micro-organisms were as...

Outbreak of acute gastroenteritis due to a washwater-contaminated water supply, Switzerland, 2008.

An operating error in a sewage treatment plant led to severe drinking water contamination in a well-defined district of a suburban municipality of Zurich, Switzerland. Despite the alert issued to the local population on the same day advising people not to consume the contaminated water, cases of acute gastroenteric diseases were subsequently observed. Considerable faecal contamination was detec...