1Division of Infectious Diseases,Duke University School of Medicine,Durham, North Carolina.
3Department of Microbiology,the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler,Tyler, Texas.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Jan;40(1):106-108. doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.298. Epub 2018 Nov 26.
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.
我们在支气管镜检查门诊量增加后,发现分枝杆菌在门诊发生了一起假暴发。我们通过增加自动内镜清洗消毒机(AER)过滤器的更换频率(从每季度一次改为每月一次)来终止此次假暴发。过滤器更换的时间表应根据使用情况而定,而不是固定的时间间隔。