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Hospital water filters as a source of Mycobacterium avium complex.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Oct 2010
Falkinham Joseph O
Abstract excerpt
Bronchoscopes and the filters used for washing them were found to yield high numbers of Mycobacterium avium isolates sharing the same repetitive sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR) fingerprint pattern as M. avium isolates recovered from patient samples collected by bronchoscopy. Water and biofilm samples collected from the bronchoscopy preparation laboratory yielded M. avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, Mycobacterium...
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