Background: Fatal post-surgical infections with Mycobacterium chimaera have occurred when aerosols generated by heater/cooler units contaminated the surgical
field during open heart surgery. This observational study assessed colonization of
heater/cooler units by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), primarily M. chimaera,
before and after decontamination.
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