Prevention of aerosol isolation of nontuberculous mycobacterium from the patient's bathroom

ERJ Open Res. 2018 Jul 3;4(3):00150-2017. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00150-2017. eCollection 2018 Jul.

Kozo Morimoto^{1

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4}, Akio Aono^{3

4}, Yoshiro Murase³, Tsuyoshi Sekizuka⁵, Atsuyuki Kurashima², Akiko Takaki³, Yuka Sasaki², Yuriko Igarashi³, Kinuyo Chikamatsu³, Hajime Goto², Hiroyuki Yamada³, Makoto Kuroda⁵, Satoshi Mitarai³

¹ Division of Clinical Research, Fukujuji Hospital, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan.
² Respiratory Disease Center, Fukujuji Hospital, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Dept of Mycobacterium Reference and Research, The Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴ Both authors contributed equally.
⁵ Pathogen Genomics Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract

Reinfection of nontuberculous mycobacterium pulmonary disease may be caused by identical and not different genotypes http://ow.ly/62cH30krdpa.