title: Nosocomial contamination by Mycobacterium gordonae in hospital water supply and super-oxidized water.
abstract: We experienced contamination by Mycobacterium gordonae of the hospital water of our surgical ward. The contamination was discovered following detection of the organism in operative lung samples, washed with super-oxidized water. Repeated examination of water demonstrated contamination by M. gordonae occurred only in the surgical ward, related to the apparatus for making super-oxidized water. No patients were infected by M. gordonae. After changing the water supply equipment and cleaning the water tubes, M. gordonae in the water disappeared.
authors: First Department of Internal Medicine, Kagawa Medical University Hospital, 1750-1 Miki-cho, Kita-gun, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan. jiro@kms.ac.jp
authors: Jiro
authors: J
authors: Fujita
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Nanki
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Negayama
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Tsutsui
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Taminato
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Ishida
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000382:microbiology*; D004866:Equipment Contamination; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009170:Nontuberculous Mycobacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital; D014881:Water Supply