ReviewEmerging infectious diseases2023
Mycobacterium abscessus Meningitis Associated with Stem Cell Treatment During Medical Tourism.
Review in Emerging infectious diseases, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cell-Based Therapies for Spinocerebellar Degenerations: A Systematic Review of Human Clinical Evidence.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Pooled it
- The Role of β-Lactam Antibiotics in Treating Mycobacterium abscessus: From Laboratory Insights to Clinical Applications and the Case for Clinical Trials.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026Review
- Successful treatment of macrolide-resistantASM case reports · 2025Article
- Novel C5α-substituted carbapenems enhanceAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2025Article
- Durlobactam in combination with β-lactams to combatAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2025Article
- The use of dual β-lactams to restore susceptibility ofJAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2024Article
- Dual β-lactam for treatment of pulmonaryAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2024Article
- Effects of Staphylococcus aureus on stem cells and potential targeted treatment of inflammatory disorders.Stem cell research & therapy · 2024Review
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- Notes from the Field: Potential Outbreak of Extrapulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus subspecies massiliense Infections from Stem Cell Treatment Clinics in Mexico - Arizona and Colorado, 2022.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2024Article
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13 authors.
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Abstract
Mycobacterium abscessus infections have been reported as adverse events related to medical tourism. We report M. abscessus meningitis in a patient who traveled from Colorado, USA, to Mexico to receive intrathecal stem cell injections as treatment for multiple sclerosis. We also review the management of this challenging central nervous system infection.
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