Survival of Mycobacterium abscessus and Staphylococcus aureus in saline waters of the Dead Sea: implications for health tourists

John E Moore; Rachel E Moore; Michal Shteinberg; Tamar Kis-Papo; Beverley Cherie Millar

doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa089

Survival of Mycobacterium abscessus and Staphylococcus aureus in saline waters of the Dead Sea: implications for health tourists

J Travel Med. 2020 Sep 26;27(6):taaa089. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa089.

Authors

John E Moore^{1

2

3}, Rachel E Moore^{1

4}, Michal Shteinberg^{5

6}, Tamar Kis-Papo⁷, Beverley Cherie Millar^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Northern Ireland Public Health Laboratory, Nightingale (Belfast City) Hospital, Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7AD, Northern Ireland.
² School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science, The Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland.
³ School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland.
⁴ School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, Northern Ireland.
⁵ Pulmonology Institute and CF Center, Carmel Medical Center, Mikhal St 7, Haifa 3436212, Israel.
⁶ The B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel.
⁷ Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, 199 Aba-Hushi Avenue, Mount Carmel, Haifa 3498838, Israel.

PMID: 32478829
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taaa089

No abstract available

Keywords: Mycobacterium abscessus; Staphylococcus aureus; Dead Sea; MRSA; antibiotic resistance; cystic fibrosis (CF); environmental persistence; microbiology; survival; water.

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Humans
Medical Tourism*
Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous* / drug therapy
Mycobacterium abscessus*
Saline Waters
Staphylococcus aureus

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents