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Mycobacterium avium Complex Common-Source or Cross-Infection in AIDS Patients Attending the Same Day-Care Facility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Anne Carbonne ,
Nadine Lemaitre ,
Marie Bochet ,
Chantal Truffot-Pernot ,
Christine Katlama ,
Jacques Grosset ,
François Bricaire  and
Vincent Jarlier
Anne Carbonne*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Nadine Lemaitre
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Marie Bochet
Affiliation:
Service des maladies infectieuses, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Chantal Truffot-Pernot
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Christine Katlama
Affiliation:
Service des maladies infectieuses, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Jacques Grosset
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
François Bricaire
Affiliation:
Service des maladies infectieuses, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
Vincent Jarlier
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
*
Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Faculté Pitié-Salpêtrière, 91, Boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France
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Abstract

To delineate the epidemiology of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients, we studied 32 case patients with disseminated MAC infection who attended the same daycare facility during a period of 13 months. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis showed very low similarity between MAC strains, suggesting that, despite close contacts between the patients, nosocomial cross-transmission or exposure to a common source of MAC did not occur

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 10 , October 1998 , pp. 784 - 786
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998 

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