MYCOBACTERIUM-AVIUM COMPLEX COMMON-SOURCE OR CROSS-INFECTION IN AIDS PATIENTS ATTENDING THE SAME DAY-CARE FACILITY

Authors
CARBONNE A LEMAITRE N BOCHET M TRUFFOTPERNOT C KATLAMA C GROSSET J BRICAIRE F JARLIER V
Citation
A. Carbonne et al., MYCOBACTERIUM-AVIUM COMPLEX COMMON-SOURCE OR CROSS-INFECTION IN AIDS PATIENTS ATTENDING THE SAME DAY-CARE FACILITY, Infection control and hospital epidemiology, 19(10), 1998, pp. 784-786
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Infection control and hospital epidemiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0899823X
Volume
19
Issue
10
Year of publication
1998
Pages
784 - 786
Database
ISI
SICI code
0899-823X(1998)19:10<784:MCCOCI>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
To delineate the epidemiology of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) inf ection in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients, we studied 32 c ase patients with disseminated MAC infection who attended the same day care facility during a period of 13 months. Pulsed-field gel electroph oresis analysis showed very low similarity between MAC strains, sugges ting that, despite close contacts between the patients, nosocomial cro ss-transmission or exposure to a common source of MAC did not occur (I nfect Control Hosp Epidemiol 1998;19:784-786).