Postsurgical wound infections due to rapidly growing mycobacteria in Swiss medical tourists following cosmetic surgery in Latin America between 2012 and 2014-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Postsurgical wound infections due to rapidly growing mycobacteria in Swiss medical tourists following cosmetic surgery in Latin America between 2012 and 2014

Published:2014-09-18 Issue:37 Volume:19 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
Container-title:Eurosurveillance
language:en
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Author:

Maurer F P¹²,Castelberg C¹,von Braun A³,Wolfensberger A³,Bloemberg G V¹,Böttger E C¹²,Somoskovi A¹²

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2. National Reference Centre for Mycobacteria, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

3. Division for Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Abstract

Between October 2012 and August 2014, several Swiss patients developed severe soft tissue infections due to rapidly growing mycobacteria following cosmetic surgery in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Mexico. Infections were caused by Mycobacterium abscessus (n=5), Mycobacterium sp. JAN1 (n=1) and M. conceptionense (n=1). Similar cases may have remained unrecognised due to a lack of notification requirements. Microbiological work-up of medical tourists with infections following cosmetic surgery should include rapidly growing mycobacteria.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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