dc.creator | Porte, Lorena | |
dc.creator | Valdivieso, Francisca | |
dc.creator | Wilmes, Dunja | |
dc.creator | Thompson, Luis | |
dc.creator | Munita, José | |
dc.creator | Varela, Carmen | |
dc.creator | Rickerts, Volker | |
dc.creator | Weitzel, Thomas | |
dc.creator | Gaete, P | |
dc.creator | Díaz, MC | |
dc.creator | Alliende, R | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-07T19:28:18Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-19T14:45:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-07T19:28:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-05-19T14:45:56Z | |
dc.date.created | 2020-09-07T19:28:18Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-08 | |
dc.identifier | Porte L, Valdivieso F, Wilmes D, et al. Laboratory exposure to Coccidioides: lessons learnt in a non-endemic country. J Hosp Infect. 2019;102(4):461-464. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2019.03.006 | |
dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2019.03.006 | |
dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11447/3416 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/6301427 | |
dc.description.abstract | Coccidioides is a primary pathogenic fungus, which infects humans through highly infectious arthroconidia, causing substantial morbidity including life-threatening disseminated infections. Due to the low infectious dose, laboratory personnel might become infected during diagnostic procedures. Accordingly, coccidioidomycosis is reported as the most frequent laboratory-acquired systemic mycosis worldwide. This risk is aggravated in non-endemic countries, where the diagnosis may not be suspected. We report on an inadvertent exposure of 44 persons to Coccidioides posadasii in a clinical microbiology laboratory in Chile, the measures of containment after rapid diagnosis with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, and the lessons learnt in a non-endemic setting. | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier Ltd | |
dc.subject | Coccidioides posadasii | |
dc.subject | Diagnosis | |
dc.subject | Laboratory exposure | |
dc.subject | MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry | |
dc.subject | Coccidioidomycosis | |
dc.title | Laboratory exposure to Coccidioides: lessons learnt in a non-endemic country | |
dc.type | Article | |