Five-Year Outbreak of Community- and Hospital-Acquired Mycobacterium porcinum Infections Related to Public Water Supplies

A. Brown‐Elliott, Barbara; J. Wallace, Richard; Tichindelean, Carmen; C. Sarria, Juan; G. McNulty, Steven; Vasireddy, Ravikaran; Bridge, Linda; G. Mayhall, C.; Y. Turenne, Christine; J. Loeffelholz, Michael

doi:10.1128/jcm.05122-11

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Five-Year Outbreak of Community- and Hospital-Acquired Mycobacterium porcinum Infections Related to Public Water Supplies

Published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology • Oct 13, 2011

Authors:

Barbara A. Brown‐Elliott

Richard J. Wallace

Carmen Tichindelean

Abstract

Mycobacterium porcinum is a rarely encountered rapidly growing Mycobacterium (RGM). We identified M. porcinum from 24 patients at a Galveston university hospital (University of Texas Medical Branch) over a 5-year period. M. porcinum was considered a pathogen in 11 (46%) of 24 infected patients, incl...

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Outbreak

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

rpoB

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