Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-28-2015
Publication Title
BioMed Research International
Department
Geisel School of Medicine
Abstract
Symptomatic disease by nontuberculous mycobacteria has been linked to potable water from institutional and domestic potable water systems. Potable water samples were collected from homes and institutions of patients with AIDS. Colonization of potable water with nontuberculous mycobacteria was demonstrated in 230 (15%) of 1489 samples collected from domestic and institutional water systems of patients with HIV infection in the United States and Finland. Mycobacterium avium was the most common species and colonization was favored at temperatures of 40–50°C in recirculating hot water systems. Such systems are a plausible source of human infection and disease.
DOI
10.1155/2015/713845
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Ristola, Matti; Arbeit, Robert D.; von Reyn, C. Fordham; and Horsburgh, C. Robert, "Isolation of Mycobacterium Avium from Potable Water in Homes and Institutions of Patients with HIV Infection in Finland and the United States" (2015). Dartmouth Scholarship. 556.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/556