TY - JOUR AU - Daniau, Côme AU - Lecorche, Emmanuel AU - Mougari, Faiza AU - Benmansour, Hanaa AU - Bernet, Claude AU - Blanchard, Hervé AU - Robert, Jérôme AU - Berger-Carbonne, Anne AU - Cambau, Emmanuelle T1 - Association of Healthcare and Aesthetic Procedures with Infections Caused by Nontuberculous Mycobacteria, France, 2012‒2020 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2022 VL - 28 IS - 3 SP - 518 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections during 2012–2020 associated with health care and aesthetic procedures in France. We obtained epidemiologic data from the national early warning response system for healtcare-associated infections and data on NTM isolates from the National Reference Center for Mycobacteria. We compared clinical and environmental isolates by using whole-genome sequencing. The 85 original cases were reported after surgery (48, 56%), other invasive procedures (28, 33%) and other procedures (9, 11%). NTM isolates belonged to rapidly growing (73, 86%) and slowly growing (10, 12%) species; in 2 cases, the species was not identified. We performed environmental investigations for 38 (45%) cases; results for 12 (32%) were positive for the same NTM species as for the infection. In 10 cases that had environmental and clinical samples whose genomes were similar, the infection source was probably the water used in the procedures. NTM infections could be preventable by using sterile water in all invasive procedures. KW - mycobacteria KW - bacteria KW - nontuberculous mycobacteria infections KW - tuberculosis and other mycobacteria KW - respiratory infections KW - healthcare-associated infections KW - aesthetic procedure‒associated infections KW - comparative genomics KW - epidemiology KW - case reports KW - retrospective study KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid2803.211791 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/3/21-1791_article ER - End of Reference