Research status of healthcare-associated infection outbreaks of non-tuber-culous Mycobacteria in foreign countries:1985-2023
Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria exists widely in the environment.Due to medical water and equipment contamination,it can cause bloodstream,skin and soft tissue infection,even lead to infection outbreaks.In this pa-per,healthcare-associated infection(HAI)outbreaks of non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in foreign countries from 1985 to 2023 were summarized and analyzed by searching HAI outbreak-related literatures from PubMed,providing reference for the formulation and supervision of non-tuberculous Mycobacterium HAI prevention and control mea-sures in the future.