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Commercial water purification system may have caused Mycobacterium infection in 4 hospitalized patients

2023-03-06T22:00:00Z

A study of four cardiac surgery patients in one hospital found that they developed Mycobacterium abscessus infections, a multidrug-resistant nontuberculous mycobacteria, potentially due to a commercial water purifier.