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Mycobacterium avium pseudo-outbreak associated with an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic: Lessons for reprocessing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2018

Jessica L. Seidelman ,
Richard J. Wallace Jr ,
Elena Iakhiaeva ,
Ravikiran Vasireddy ,
Barbara A. Brown-Elliott ,
Celeste McKnight ,
Luke F. Chen ,
Terry Smith  and
Sarah S. Lewis
Jessica L. Seidelman*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
Richard J. Wallace Jr
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
Elena Iakhiaeva
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
Ravikiran Vasireddy
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
Barbara A. Brown-Elliott
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
Celeste McKnight
Affiliation:
Duke Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina (Present affiliation: Merck & Co, Philadelphia, PA [L.F.C].)
Luke F. Chen
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
Terry Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas
Sarah S. Lewis
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
*
Author for correspondence: Jessica L. Seidelman, 310 Trent Drive, Hanes House Room 181, Durham, NC 27710. E-mail: jessica.seidelman@duke.edu
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Abstract

We identified a pseudo-outbreak of Mycobacterium avium in an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic following an increase in clinic procedure volume. We terminated the pseudo-outbreak by increasing the frequency of automated endoscope reprocessors (AER) filter changes from quarterly to monthly. Filter changing schedules should depend on use rather than fixed time intervals.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 106 - 108
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© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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Footnotes

Cite this article: Seidelman JL, et al. (2019). Mycobacterium avium pseudo-outbreak associated with an outpatient bronchoscopy clinic: Lessons for reprocessing. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2019, 40, 106–108. doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.298

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