Publications by authors named "Federica Sorella"
Mycobacterium chimaera, belonging to the Mycobacterium avium complex, is an opportunistic environmental mycobacterium which has been isolated from medical device water samples such as Heater Cooler Units (HCU). Laboratories currently use culture-based diagnostic methods to detect M. chimaera, but these take a long time to obtain results.
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- The study assesses the effectiveness of the BD BACTEC™ MGIT™ system for detecting non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in sanitary water, focusing on samples from heater-cooler units and haemodialysis instruments over a five-year period.
- A total of 1,369 water samples from HCUs and 747 from dialysis machines were tested, with 261 and 20 cultures yielding NTM, respectively, verified through advanced techniques.
- Results show that the MGIT system is not only reliable and reproducible for clinical applications but also effective for environmental testing of NTM, detecting concentrations as low as 4 CFU/mL.
Mycobacterium saskatchewanense is a species of pigmented slow-growing Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM), positive for Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) by AccuProbe system. MAC organisms have frequently been isolated from different medical devices. This is the first study reporting isolation of M.
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